The Global Village and Nation State - Week of December 2, 1996

Schedule

• Monday. John Rendon, The Rendon Group
• Wednesday.

Required Reading

1. John Rendon's presentation at US Air Force Academy Conference on Information Technology and National Security
2. Charles Swett, Strategic Assessment: The Internet
3. Democracy and Government Control of the Money Supply

Questions

1. Write down two questions to ask John Rendon.
2. What are the key claims of the authors?
3. How does the Internet affect what we know about the world?
4. How are global communications and information technologies affecting world politics? global commerce? culture? power? money systems? developing countries?
5. How might the Internet strengthen or undermine nation states?