Negotiation and the Global Information Economy

J. P. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. His book publications include Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring (1999) and Information Technologies and Global Politics (co-edited with James N. Rosenau, 2002). He has also authored over three-dozen scholarly articles. He has been a visiting scholar at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. He was Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal Review of Policy Research: The Politics and Policy of Science and Technology, from 2006–09.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Power, interests, and negotiations; 3. Services and intellectual property: multilateral framework negotiations; 4. Cultural industries and telecommunications: multilateral sectoral negotiations; 5. Infrastructure pricing negotiations: evaluating alternatives when facing a significant market power; 6. Electronic commerce: reaching agreement when facing market power in Internet governance and data privacy; 7. Conclusion: power and governance.

'J. P. Singh offers a portable analytic framework for analyzing negotiations, and makes a persuasive case for the conditions under which the negotiation process itself is likely to have a decisive impact. Scholars and students of global governance will find this systematic, lucid, and thoughtful book to be illuminating and well worth reading. The empirical work is particularly masterful and original.' Susan K. Sell, George Washington University