文档介绍：INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
AND GLOBAL POLITICS
SUNY SERIES IN GLOBAL POLITICS
James N. Rosenau
editor
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
AND GLOBAL POLITICS
The Changing Scope
of Power and Governance
edited by
JAMES N. ROSENAU
and
J. P. SINGH
State University of New York Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Information technologies and global politics : the changing scope of power and
governance / edited by James N. Roseanau and . Singh.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in global politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-5203-4 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5204-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Power (Social sciences) 2. Information technology—Political aspects. 3. Information
society—Political aspects. 4. State, The. 5. International relations. I. Rosenau, James N.
II. Singh, J. P., 1961– III. Series.
JC330 .I54 2002
—dc21 2001048344
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CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES vii
PREFACE ix
ACRONYMS xi
IMPORTANT TERMS xv
1INTRODUCTION:INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE
CHANGING SCOPE OF GLOBAL POWER AND GOVERNANCE 1
J. P. Singh
WORKS AND THEIR IMPACT 39
Jonathan Aronson
PART I: THE CHANGING SCOPE OF POWER
3PUBLIC EYES:SATELLITE IMAGERY, THE GLOBALIZATION OF
TR ANSPARENCY, AND WORKS