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Compunication and national security
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A. A. Abdulwahid
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University)
1988
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Ph.D.
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University)
1988
Information has become a market, with intense competition in its production and management. The information revolution is considered a derivative product of the development of combined computer and telecommunication networks. Composite materials and space technology are shaping a new environment and visions all over the world. The gathering, processing, protection, utilization, and marketing of information all are exponentially enhanced by integrated computers, communications, and data bases infrastructures. It is called "compunication", which has many social, economic, and political benefits as well as other surprises that will continue into the foreseeable future. The most obvious benefit is its power to bridge diversified and distinctive cultures and ideologies. One of the surprises has been that compunications has become more of an essential element in national security than weapon systems themselves. Developing a country's compunication network is usually perceived as adding new and better equipment or services to the existing capacity. Little attention is usually paid to the negative impact the rate of expansion can have on the national, regional, and international dimensions of national security. Saudi Arabia is a good example of the utilization of compunication for the creation and maintenance of adequate conditions of national security. To assess the position of Saudi Arabia on the telecommunication saturation curve, the administrative, economic, human, and technical factors have to be reviewed. Each of these factors represents a whole structure with its own laws and inertia. They affect telecommunication development in Saudi Arabia from different, sometimes irreconcilable angles. This work will argue that compunication is a double-edged sword that can both hinder and enhance the national security of Saudi Arabia; and will provide evidence that the development of so many compunication systems in the Kingdom over the last decade is reaching the point where the mere co-existence of many systems might be counter-productive to further developments and to national security. ftnFor more explanation see Theodore Roszak, The Cult Of Information, (New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1986), pp.177-198; The Futurist (May-June 1986): 5.; Technology Review (August-September 1984): 53; Business Korea 3, No. 2. (August 1986): 69.
International law
International law
International relations
Social sciences
A. A. Abdulwahid
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