Technology, Development, and Democracy

Juliann Emmons Allison is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California.

• I. Introduction 1. Information and International Poltics: an Overview Juliann Emmons Allison II. Contending Perspectives 2. Communications Revolutions and International PoliticsArthur Stein and Cherie Steele 3. Information and Turbulence in International Politics James N. Rosenau and David Johnson 4. Globalization, Information and ChangeFrank Webster III. Contemporary Issues 5. Coincident Revolutions and the Dictator's Dilemma: Thoughts on Communication and Democratization Christopher Kedzie, with Janni Aragon 6. The Media, Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy Matthew Baum 7. Making the National International: Information Technology and Government Respect for Human Rights David L. Richards Jr. 8. Gender, Women's Organizing and the Internet Deborah Stienstra 9. Technology Transfer in the Computer Age: Africa's Experience Ali Mazrui and Robert L. Ostergard Jr. Contributors Index

"This is an outstanding book, which addresses a serious gap in the existing literature on information technologies and conflict in international relations." — Ronald Deibert, author of Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia"The impact of information technologies on world politics is much bandied about in scholarship and policy circles, but detailed studies are few and far between. This volume provides sorely needed foundational and conceptual work in this area." — J. P. Singh, author of Leapfrogging Development?: The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring