The Internet and International Systems: Information Technology and American Foreign Policy Decisionmaking December 10 – San Francisco, CA Philip Agre UCLA Associate Professor Department of Information Studies Philip E. Agre is an associate professor of information studies at UCLA. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT in 1989, having conducted dissertation research in […]
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The Impact of the Northeast Asian Peace and Security Network in US-DPRK Conflict Resolution
By Peter Hayes, Wade Huntley, Tim Savage, GeeGee Wong Nautilus Institute DRAFT – Please do not quote or cite – DRAFT Internet and International Systems: Information Technology and American Foreign Policy Decision-making Workshop Nautilus Institute, San Francisco, December 10, 1999 INTRODUCTION Non-governmental organizations use information and the new technologies such as the Internet in many ways […]
Activism, Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism: The Internet as a Tool for Influencing Foreign Policy
Dorothy E. Denning Georgetown University Internet and International Systems: Information Technology and American Foreign Policy Decision-making Workshop Nautilus Institute, San Francisco, December 10, 1999 The conflict over Kosovo has been characterized as the first war on the Internet. Government and non-government actors alike used the Net to disseminate information, spread propaganda, demonize opponents, and solicit […]
Integrated Security: The Protection of Planetary Networks
Ronald J. Deibert University of Toronto DRAFT – Please do not quote or cite – DRAFT Internet and International Systems: Information Technology and American Foreign Policy Decision-making Workshop Nautilus Institute, San Francisco, December 10, 1999 Introduction One of the most dynamic areas of international relations theory over the last two decades has been the debate […]
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Virtual Diasporas Diasporic Communication in the Contexts of International Conflict and Cooperation Phineas Baxandall, Harvard University Good Capital, Bad Capital: Dangers and Development in Digital Diasporas (abstract) Karim H. Karim, Carleton University Diasporic Communication in the Contexts of International Conflict and Cooperation. Michel Laguerre, MIT/UC Berkeley “Virtual Diasporas: A New Frontier of National Security” (op-ed) […]
The Impact of the Internet on Sovereignty: Real and Unfounded Worries
THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON SOVEREIGNTY: UNFOUNDED AND REAL WORRIES There is a growing debate about the Internet and its impact on sovereignty. A good example in the legal scholarship is the recent special issue of the Indiana Journal for Global Legal Studies. The major lines of the debate are increasingly polarized among those […]
Integrated Security: The Protection of Planetary Networks
Introduction One of the most dynamic areas of international relations theory over the last two decades has been the debate about the nature and re-definition of “security.” Particularly since the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the bipolar global security structure, a variety of alternative notions of security have proliferated. Among those […]
The Impact of the Northeast Asian Peace and Security Network in US-DPRK Conflict Resolution
INTRODUCTION Non-governmental organizations use information and the new technologies such as the Internet in many ways to affect the US foreign policy decision-making process. They use it to mobilize constituencies in large numbers to bring direct political pressure to bear on decision-makers. They use it to alert the media of breaking events. They use it […]
Japan Under the US Nuclear Umbrella
Hans Kristensen Introduction and Summary The Early Years The Battle over Okinawa The “Secret” Agreement Nuclear War Planning in Japan About the Author Introduction And Summary During the Cold War, rumors concerning U.S. deployments of nuclear weapons to Japan were both numerous and widely reported. Such rumors were consistently met with adamant […]
Fact Sheet on US Sanctions against DPRK
The following document is a fact sheet from the US Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control, detailing the economic sanctions that apply to the DPRK under US law, and how those sanctions can be revised or repealed. NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS Category Description Repeal/Revise [Legal Citation] 1. Diplomatic Relations.[U.S. Constitution Note: For a good, general […]