Information Technologies and Global Politics

Information Technologies and Global PoliticsExamines how information technologies may be shifting power and authority away from the state. Returning to the fundamentals of political science, namely power and governance, this book 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

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