Abstract
While the World Wide Web and information technology (IT) have a transformative impact on global security, neither they nor the expectations they arouse are unique to our time. IT creates enormous opportunities for non-state actors and enhances the global profile of previously marginalised issues and movements. IT is a highly visible embodiment of the complexity of contemporary global politics and is present in many settings: facilitating the overwhelming dominance of conventional US military forces; integrating pre-existing technologies such as computers and photography on a single platform; globalising values, ideas, and interests; privatising information about world events for a significant minority of the global population; and, introducing a range of non-state actors who have transnational communication abilities into the global scene. ————————————————————————
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