Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: information technologies and the changing scope of global power and governance / J.P. Singh
  • Global networks and their impact / Jonathan Aronson
  • Public eyes: satellite imagery, the globalization of transparency, and new networks of surveillance / Karen T. Litfin
  • Informational meta-technologies, international relations, and genetic power: the case of biotechnologies / Sandra Braman
  • Circuits of power: security in the internet environment / Ronald J. Deibert
  • The global political economy of Wintelism: a new mode of power and governance in the global computer industry / Sangbae Kim and Jeffrey A. Hart
  • New technologies and consumption: contradictions in the emerging world order / Edward Comor
  • Capitalism, technology, and liberalization: the international telecommunications regime, 1865-1998 / Mark W. Zacher
  • Understanding shifts in the form and scope of telecommunications governance: Canada and the United States in the twentieth century / Stephen D. McDowell
  • Negotiating regime change: the weak, the strong, and the WTO Telecom Accord / J.P. Singh
  • Information technologies and the skills, networks, and structures that sustain world affairs / James N. Rosenau.