INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND GLOBAL POLITICS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACRONYMS -- IMPORTANT TERMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE CHANGING SCOPE OF GLOBAL POWER AND GOVERNANCE by J. P. SINGH -- 2. GLOBAL NETWORKS AND THEIR IMPACT by JONATHAN ARONSON -- PART I: THE CHANGING SCOPE OF POWER -- 3. PUBLIC EYES: SATELLITE IMAGERY, THE GLOBALIZATION OF TRANSPARENCY, AND NEW NETWORKS OF SURVEILLANCE by KAREN T. LITFIN -- 4. INFORMATIONAL META-TECHNOLOGIES, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GENETIC POWER: THE CASE OF BIOTECHNOLOGIES by SANDRA BRAMAN -- PART II: THE CHANGING SCOPE OF POWER AND GOVERNANCE -- 5. CIRCUITS OF POWER: SECURITY IN THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT by RONALD J. DEIBERT -- 6. THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WINTELISM: A NEW MODE OF POWER AND GOVERNANCE IN THE GLOBAL COMPUTER INDUSTRY by SANGBAE KIM AND JEFFREY A. HART -- 7. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND CONSUMPTION: CONTRADICTIONS IN THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER by EDWARD COMOR -- PART III: GOVERNANCE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 8. CAPITALISM, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIBERALIZATION: THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGIME, 1865-1998 by MARK W. ZACHER -- 9. UNDERSTANDING SHIFTS IN THE FORM AND SCOPE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS GOVERNANCE: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by STEPHEN D. MCDOWELL -- 10. NEGOTIATING REGIME CHANGE: THE WEAK, THE STRONG AND THE WTO TELECOM ACCORD by J. P. SINGH -- CONCLUSION -- 11. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE SKILLS, NETWORKS, AND STRUCTURES THAT SUSTAIN WORLD AFFAIRS by JAMES N. ROSENAU -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- SUNY series in Global Politics.