Journal of International Affairs

CRIME, CORRUPTION AND TECHNOLOGY IN A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS Once crime was primarily local and regional in character.(1) Today, thanks to computer and communications technologies, crime and corruption are no longer limited by geographic boundaries....

The defining feature of economic growth in the Information Age is the increasing weightlessness of output. Production and consumption are shifting away from objects toward information and services. Good examples of weightless goods are computer software,...

The world is entering an historical period of big change. Big change is complex and chaotic, and almost impossible to view from an objective distance by any of its participants. Big change is defined in this article as migration and revolution combined....

Like a big bang, the explosion of information technology, both symbolized and realized by the Internet, has vastly multiplied opportunities for international commerce. Thanks to a digitally linked global economy, information zips across national frontiers...

Global expenditure on military research and development is about U.S. $49 billion, of which U.S. $43 billion is accounted for by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.(1) "The most notable development [over the 1996 fiscal year] was the continuity...

Brazil encompasses the fifth largest territory in the world and possesses the largest tropical forest on earth. Yet these attributes have not come without a cost: the country faces a diversity of environmental problems that could have irreversible,...

Interviewed on 24 November 1997 by Ann Grier Cutter and Len A. Costa for the Journal of International Affairs On 1 July 1997, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore released the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, the administration's...

The global economic environment has entered a new era in terms of scope, speed, mobility and incentive. The lowering of national barriers is increasingly clear in the areas of trade, travel and finance, just to name a few. What is less apparent are...

The primacy of the nation state is being challenged from both above and below. From above, after the Second World War, the growth in the power and scope of supranational institutions--from multinational corporations to the United Nations and the International...