Information Technologies and Global Politics

Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Goveranance, edited by James Rosenau and J. P. Singh, studies the relationship between information technologies and global politics. Key issue-areas are carefully examined: security (including information warfare and terrorism); global consumption and production; international telecommunications; culture and identity formation; human rights; humanitarian assistance; the environment; and biotechnology. Three major conclusions are offered. First, the nation-state must now confront, support, or coexist with other international actors: non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations; multinational corporations; transnational social movements; and individuals. Second, our understanding of instrumental and structural powers must be reconfigured to account for digital information technologies. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, information technologies are now reconstituting actor identities and issues.

Participants

• James N Rosenau
  Professor of International Affairs George Washington University


• Jonathan Aronson
  Director, School of International Relations and Professor, Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California


• J. P. Singh
  Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, and TechnologyGeorgetown University