Taylor Owen

Disruptive Power

The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Five years ago, these terms were meaningless to the vast majority of people in the world. Today, they and many like them dominate the news and keep policymakers, security experts, and military and intelligence officials up at night. These groups and individuals are enabled and empowered by digital technology to confound and provoke the state in a way not possible before the
Internet revolution. They are representative of a wide range of 21st century global actors and a new form of 21st century power: disruptive power.

In Disruptive Power, Taylor Owen provides a sweeping look at the way that digital technologies are shaking up the workings of the institutions that have traditionally controlled international affairs: humanitarianism, diplomacy, war, journalism, activism, and finance. The traditional nation state system and the subsequent multinational system were founded on and have long functioned through a concentration of power in the state, through the military, currency controls, foreign policy,
the rule of law, and so on. In this book, Owen argues that in every aspect of international affairs, the digitally enabled are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power. Each chapter of Owen's book looks at a different aspect of international affairs,
profiling the disruptive innovators and demonstrating how they are challenging existing power structures for good and ill. Owen considers what constitutes successful online international action, what sorts of technologies are being used as well as what these technologies might look like a decade from now, and what new institutions will be needed to moderate the new power structures and ensure accountability.

With cutting edge analysis of the fast-changing relationship between the declining state and increasingly powerful non-state actors, Disruptive Power is the essential road map for navigating a networked world.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
• Verlag: OUP USA / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780199363865
• ISBN-10: 0199363862
• Artikelnr.: 42106451

Autorenporträt

Taylor Owen is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School. He was previously the Research Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University where he designed and led a program studying the impact of digital technology on the practice of journalism. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of opencanada.org, an award-winning international affairs website; the Director of the International Relations and Digital Technology Projects, an international research project exploring the intersection of information technology and international affairs; and the Research Director of the Munk Debates. He has previously held positions at Yale University, London School of Economics and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. His PhD is from the University of Oxford, where he was a Trudeau Scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Surveillance Arms Race
2. An Evolution of Power
3. Anonymous and the Disrupted State
4. New Money
5. Being There
6. Spaces of Dissent
7. Saving the Saviors
8. The Violence of Algorithms
9. Diplomacy Unbound
10. A Post-Westphalian Disorder