Journal of International Affairs articles from March 1998

Journal of International Affairs archives from March 1998

Cyberpolitik: The Changing Nature of Power in the Information Age.(international relations)
March 22, 1998... For three hundred years, the aspirations of nation states and their leaders have been the principle drivers in international relations. Throughout that period, the ability of those nation states to achieve their goals has rested on three...

Back to the Future: Neomedievalism and the Postmodern Digital World Economy.
March 22, 1998... We are entering a period of turbulent, systemic change in the organization of the world economic and political order--a period comparable to the transition from the feudal to the modern era in the 16th and 17th centuries. As Hobsbawm observes,...

Electronic Money: A Challenge to the Sovereign State?
March 22, 1998... Information technologies (IT) have been applied more extensively to the financial sector than to any other sector of the world economy. They first began to be used in a widespread manner during the 1970s and 1980s in order to increase the...

Information War, Information Peace.(national defense policy in the electronic age)
March 22, 1998... As the United States pursues international security in a networked age, it faces a fundamental choice between two national defense paths. One path originates in the ever-improving ability of advanced militaries to illuminate the battlespace in...

The Revolution in Military Affairs Outside the West.
March 22, 1998... The military gap between the West--symbolized primarily by U.S. military capabilities--and the rest of the world has widened in the twilight years of the 20th century, due to the latest revolution in military affairs (RMA). This paper is about...

Economic Growth in the Information Age: From Physical Capital to Weightless Economy.
March 22, 1998... The defining feature of economic growth in the Information Age is the increasing weightlessness of output. Production and consumption are shifting away from objects toward information and services. Good examples of weightless goods are computer...

Horse Trading in Cyberspace: U.S. Trade Policy in the Information Age.
March 22, 1998... Like a big bang, the explosion of information technology, both symbolized and realized by the Internet, has vastly multiplied opportunities for international commerce. Thanks to a digitally linked global economy, information zips across...

Entering the Infosphere.(communications network as social and political place)
March 22, 1998... The world is entering an historical period of big change. Big change is complex and chaotic, and almost impossible to view from an objective distance by any of its participants. Big change is defined in this article as migration and revolution...

The Framework for Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Perspective.(interview with presidential adviser Ira C. Magaziner)(Interview)
March 22, 1998... Interviewed on 24 November 1997 by Ann Grier Cutter and Len A. Costa for the Journal of International Affairs On 1 July 1997, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore released the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, the...

The Impact of Technology on Financial Development in East Asia.
March 22, 1998... Financial institutions are rapidly increasing their use of technology to streamline operations, expand trading activities, improve service and minimize risks. In similar fashion, financial markets in East Asia are rapidly developing in breadth...

The Path Transformed: Redefining Japan's Role in the Information Economy.
March 22, 1998... The global economic environment has entered a new era in terms of scope, speed, mobility and incentive. The lowering of national barriers is increasingly clear in the areas of trade, travel and finance, just to name a few. What is less apparent...

Telecommunications in Chile: Success and Post-Deregulatory Challenges in a Rapidly Emerging Economy.
March 22, 1998... CHILE'S DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY The challenge of the Chilean post-deregulation period in telecommunications is to provide a framework that will allow the market to generate improvements that will be measured not only in number of lines per...

Globalization and State Autonomy in the Information Age: Telecommunications Sector Restructuring in South Africa.
March 22, 1998... The world system is experiencing fundamental structural change characterized by the increasing globalization of production and distribution, increased interdependence and the emergence of a knowledge-based global information economy. The...

Crime and Corruption in the Digital Age.
March 22, 1998... CRIME, CORRUPTION AND TECHNOLOGY IN A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS Once crime was primarily local and regional in character.(1) Today, thanks to computer and communications technologies, crime and corruption are no longer limited by geographic...

The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric.(Mexican Zapatista National Liberation Army)
March 22, 1998... The primacy of the nation state is being challenged from both above and below. From above, after the Second World War, the growth in the power and scope of supranational institutions--from multinational corporations to the United Nations and...

Pushing the Envelope Too Far? Technology's Impact on NATO Expansion.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
March 22, 1998... Global expenditure on military research and development is about U.S. $49 billion, of which U.S. $43 billion is accounted for by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.(1) "The most notable development [over the 1996 fiscal year] was the...

Space Technology and Environmental Monitoring in Brazil.
March 22, 1998... Brazil encompasses the fifth largest territory in the world and possesses the largest tropical forest on earth. Yet these attributes have not come without a cost: the country faces a diversity of environmental problems that could have...

Reorienting for Sustainable Development: Support for a National Science and Technology Policy.
March 22, 1998... Economic growth and environmental security in the United States require a national science technology policy that adequately supports a vibrant science and technology community Significant technological innovations that address long-term...

Live, Direct and Biased? Making Television News in the Satellite Age.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Live, Direct and Biased? Making Television News in the Satellite Age Brent MacGregor (London: Arnold Publishing, 1997) 256 pp. It is commonplace to proclaim that the telecommunications revolution has fundamentally transformed our daily...

Environmental Policy and Technological Change: A Comparison of the Technological Impact of Policy Instruments.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Environmental Policy and Technological Change: A Comparison of the Technological Impact of Policy Instruments Rene Kemp (United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 1997) 360 pp. It is commonly held that since technological innovation has gotten us into...

Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context William F. Martin, Ryukichi Imai and Helga Steeg (New York: The Trilateral Commission, 1996) 117 pp. In Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context, William F. Martin, Ryukichi Imai and...

North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation.(Review)
March 22, 1998... North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation Michael J. Mazarr (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 1996) 290 pp. In North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation, Michael J. Mazarr provides a detailed account of...

Sustainable Global Communities In The Information Age: Visions From Futures Studies.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Sustainable Global Communities In The Information Age: Visions From Futures Studies Yamaguchi, Kaoru, ed. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997) 242 pp. Sustainable Global Communities In The Information Age: Visions from Futures Studies...

Technology, Globalisation, and Economic Performance.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Technology, Globalisation, and Economic Performance Danielle Archibugi and Jonathan Michie eds., (Port Chester, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997) 303 pp. Over the past 50 years, mainstream economics has paid distressingly little...

The United States and Arms Control: The Challenge of Leadership.(Review)
March 22, 1998... The United States and Arms Control: The Challenge of Leadership Allan S. Krass (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997) 205 pp. Allan Krass, currently working on the staff of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Bureau of...