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The Question of Information Technology in International Relations

Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Against the backdrop of events produced by the InfoTechWarPeace Project at Brown University, including internet interventions, videoconferences, symposia, public forums, multi-media exhibitions and video documentaries, this article seeks to understand through information technology (IT) how the `Digital Age' and an `Age of Terror' converged on 9/11. As an inquiry into the impact of IT on International Relations (IR), it mobilizes the key concepts of `infowar' and `infopeace' to trace the development of network-centric forms of conflict and peacemaking. Two short case studies of 11/9 and 9/11 are presented to assess the dual capacity of IT in IR. Trapped in a new interwar of technological and theological fundamentalisms, we need to tap into the surplus capacity of information networks to awaken a global critical consciousness.

Millennium - Journal of International Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, 441-456 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/03058298030320030501


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