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Comment: Information Technology – an element of national power.

  • UPSC 2000
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Information technology (IT) was absent from Hans J. Morgenthau's classical inventory of national power. Alvin Toffler (Powershift, 1990) called knowledge the highest-quality source of power. Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye (Foreign Affairs, 1998) argued that the information revolution changes who holds power and how it is exercised. Today IT is both an element…

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  • How IT generates power
  • Limits and vulnerabilities
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