Launching Into Cyberspace: Internet Development and Politics in Five World Regions

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Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002 - 297 páginas
Launching into Cyberspace explores the Internet as an increasingly important variable in the study of comparative politics and international relations in diverse national settings. Focusing on Africa, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, China, and India, Franda examines the extent to which Internet development has (or has not) taken place and the relationship between that development and the conduct of international relations. His case studies - incorporating an analysis of such wide-ranging variables as language and literacy, cultural values, political parties, leadership, and the availability of capital and technological expertise - also illuminate policy processes in differing political systems. Franda provides new insights into the diffusion of the international Internet regime from its original moorings in the U.S., western Europe, and Japan and, especially, to the understanding of Internet development as a major issue on the global policy agenda. Franda examines the extent to which Internet development has (or has not) taken place in a range of national settings, as well as the relationship between that development and the conduct of international relations.
 

Contenido

Internet Cultures in Israel and the Arab World
41
The Middle East and the Global Internet Regime
67
The Political Economy of the Internet in Eastern Europe
129
EU Membership and Information Technology Investments
137
Internet Growth in Hungary the Czech Republic and Poland
143
Conclusions
150
Internet Politics in the Former Soviet Union and Other
159
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181
Internet Development in India
203
Indias Lead in Software Technology
209
India and the International Regime for the Internet
218
The Internet in Comparative International Perspective
227
List of Acronyms
245
Bibliography
251
Index
285
About the Book 297

China and India as Potential Internet Superpowers
187
PRC Security Concerns
197

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Marcus Franda is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. His numerous publications include Governing the Internet: The Emergence of an International Regime.

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