[DW] Report - Rise of NetPolitik: How the Internet is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy - From the Apsen Institute

[Steven Clift]

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THE RISE OF NETPOLITIK
How the Internet Is Changing
International Politics and Diplomacy
A Report of the Eleventh Annual Aspen Institute
Roundtable on Information Technology
by David Bollier


Contents
FOREWORD, Charles M Firestone v
THE RISE OF NETPOLITIK
How the Internet Is Changing International Diplomacy, David Bollier
Introduction - 1
I Electronic Networks Are Changing the Architecture of
Power and Culture - 3
Sidebar: The Effects of The Internet on Military Strategy - 12
II The Internet and the Rise of Soft Power - 16
III International Politics As An Arena of Competing Stories - 27
Conclusion - 38
Notes - 40
APPENDIX
The Impact of Information Flow, Boris Trajkovski - 45
List of Conference Participants - 49
About the Author - 53
The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program - 55
Previous Publications from the Aspen Institute Roundtable on
Information Technology - 57

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The Plan of This Report

This report asks: How are the Internet and other digital technologies
changing the conduct of world affairs? What do these changes mean for
our understanding of power in international relations and how
political interests are pursued? Part I explores how the faster
velocity of information and the diversification of information
sources are complicating international diplomacy (sections A and B).
The geopolitical and military implications of these changes are
signi.cant but poorly understood.

Part II explores how the Internet is affecting cross-cultural and
political relationships and elevating the importance of “soft power”
in international affairs. The new global communications
infrastructure of the Internet, .lms, television, and music
represents a robust new arena for international dialogue and con.ict.
Coercive military and .nancial powers are tempered by considerations
of soft power, such as the desire to assert national pride, persuade
others of a cause’s moral legitimacy, and sustain one’s cultural
values.

How do people express their values, identity, and culture? Part III
examines one of the most universal human tools for doing so:
storytelling. Conference participants generally agreed that the
successful exercise of soft power requires an understanding of the
“grand narratives” of different cultures. International diplomacy
therefore may require new attention to the grammar of story
construction and the perplexing ways that context, trust, and meaning
are generated in an electronically networked world.
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