Cyberpolitics in International Relations
"In 1990, only a quarter of a million people used the Internet; today a third of the world population is connected and the growth is exponential. Our understanding of the implications for international relations struggles to keep up. In this original work, Nazli Choucri uses her lateral pressure theory to shed light on this dramatic change." --Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University; author ofThe Future of Power"This book is an imaginative, skillful integration of the key concerns of international relations and the burgeoning scholarship on new communication technologies. Nazli Choucri argues convincingly that understanding international politics must now take into account the great changes in global communication of the past two decades. A timely and refreshing book, and one that reveals how digital media are reconfiguring many of the classic themes of international relations theory." --Andrew Chadwick, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the New Political Communication Unit in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London"The global communications system is becoming more complex and of more strategic importance for international politics. Cyber security issues have vaulted to the top of the international security agenda. Now more than ever it is important for scholars of world politics to address the international relations implications of cyberspace.Cyberpolitics in International Relationsis an important contribution to that pressing need, and should be widely read by scholars of world politics." --Ronald Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto