Introduction: information technologies and the changing scope of global power and governance / J.P. Singh -- Global networks and their impact / Jonathan Aronson -- Public eyes: satellite imagery, the globalization of transparency, and new networks of surveillance / Karen T. Litfin -- Informational meta-technologies, international relations, and genetic power: the case of biotechnologies / Sandra Braman -- Circuits of power: security in the internet environment / Ronald J. Deibert -- The global political economy of Wintelism: a new mode of power and governance in the global computer industry / Sangbae Kim and Jeffrey A. Hart -- New technologies and consumption: contradictions in the emerging world order / Edward Comor -- Capitalism, technology, and liberalization: the international telecommunications regime, 1865-1998 / Mark W. Zacher -- Understanding shifts in the form and scope of telecommunications governance: Canada and the United States in the twentieth century / Stephen D. McDowell -- Negotiating regime change: the weak, the strong, and the WTO Telecom Accord / J.P. Singh -- Information technologies and the skills, networks, and structures that sustain world affairs / James N. Rosenau.