Bombs and bandwidth : the emerging relationship between information technology and security / Robert Latham, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Latham, Robert, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--United States.

National security.

United States.

Information warfare.

Military intelligence.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

Physical Description:

vi, 326 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [2003]

Summary:

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEW OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS IT IS USED BY GOVERNMENTS AND CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS ALIKE. Information Technology (IT) has become central to the way governments, businesses, social movements and even terrorist and criminal organizations pursue their increasingly globalized objectives. With the emergence of the Internet and new digital technologies, traditional boundaries are increasingly irrelevant, and traditional concepts--from privacy to surveillance, vulnerability, and above all, security--need to be reconsidered. In the post-9/11 era of "homeland security, " the relationship between IT and security has acquired a new and pressing relevance. Bombs and Bandwidth, a project of the Social Science Research Council, assembles leading scholars in a range of disciplines to explore the new nature of IT-related threats, the new power structures emerging around IT, and the ethical and political implications arising from this complex and important field.

Contents:

I. Cyber-War and National Security

1. Cyber-security as an Emergent Infrastructure / Dorothy E. Denning 25

2. The American Cyber-Angst and the Real World

Any Link? / Ralf Bendrath 49

3. Beyond the American Fortress: Understanding Homeland Security in the Information Age / Rachel E. D. Yould 74

II. Surveillance and Security

4. Toward a Theory of Border Control / Martin C. Libicki 101

5. The Transformation of Global Surveillance / Susan Landau 117

6. Privacy and Secrecy After September 11 / Marc Rotenberg 132

Exhibit: Observing Surveillance / Marc Rotenberg, Mihir Kshirsagar, Cedric Laurant, Kate Rears 143

III. Digital War-Making

7. Social and Electronic Networks in the War on Terror / Ronald J. Deibert, Janice Gross Stein 157

8. Programming Theaters of War: Gamemakers as Soldiers / Timothy Lenoir 175

9. Perpetual Revolution in Military Affairs, International Security, and Information / Chris Hables Gray 199

IV. Civil Violence and Information Technologies

10. Bullets to Bytes: Reflections on ICTs and "Local" Conflict / Rafal Rohozinski 215

11. ICT and the World of Smuggling / Carolyn Nordstrom 235

12. Information Technology and the Web Activism of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Electronic Politics and New Global Conflict / Michael Dartnell 251

13. The Internet's Mediation Potential in Protracted Conflicts: The Case of Burundi / Rose M. Kadende-Kaiser 268.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-312) and index.

ISBN:

1565848675

1565848624

OCLC:

51722832