Description: As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this conventional wisdom has informed the views of policymakers, business leaders, and media pundits alike. Yet few studies have sought to systematically analyze the exact ways in which Internet use may lay the basis for political change. In O pen Networks, Closed Regimes, the authors take a comprehensive look at how a broad range of societal and political actors in eight authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries employ the Internet. Based on methodical assessment of evidence from these cases--China, Cuba, Singapore, Vietnam, Burma, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt--the study contends that the Internet is not necessarily a threat to authoritarian regimes.
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Book Title: Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Aut
Number of Pages: 218 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Open Networks, Closed Regimes : the Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Subject: Public Policy / Communication Policy, Social Aspects / General, Computer & Internet, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.5 Oz
Subject Area: Law, Computers, Political Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Shanthi Kalathil, Taylor C. Boas
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
