"Why buy a multi-billion-dollar satellite and go to extreme lengths to try to avoid governmental detection when you can just buy a bit of airtime and send one of several million messages going out at any given time?" - from Bombs and Bandwidth.

This book intends to explore the ways in which information technology (IT) has become central to the way governments, businesses, social movements and even terrorist and criminal organisations pursue their increasingly globalised objectives. "With the emergence of the Internet and new digital technologies, traditional boundaries are increasingly irrelevant, and traditional concepts - from privacy to surveillance, vulnerability, and above all, security - need to be reconsidered."

"In the post-9/11 era of 'homeland security,' the relationship between IT and security has acquired a new and pressing relevance. Bombs and Bandwidth, a project of the Social Science Research Council, assembles scholars in a range of disciplines to explore the new nature of IT-related threats, the new power structures emerging around IT, and the ethical and political implications arising from this complex and important field."

Table of Contents

1. Cyberwar and National Security
• Cyber Security As An Emergent Infrastructure
  Dorothy Denning
• The American Cyber-Angst and the Real World – Any Link?
  Ralf Bendrath
• Beyond the American Fortress: Understanding Homeland Security in theInformation Age
  Rachel Yould
2. Surveillance and Security
• Toward a Theory of Border Control
  Martin Libicki
• The Transformation of Global Surveillance
  Susan Landau
• Privacy and Secrecy After September 11
  Mark Rotenberg
• Addendum: Observing Surveillance
  Marc Rotenberg, Mihir Kshirsagar, Cedric Laurant, Kate Rears
3. Digital War-Making
• Hacking Networks of Terror
  Ronald Deibert and Janice Gross Stein
• Programming Theatres Of War: Gamemakers As Soldiers
  Timothy Lenoir
• Perpetual Revolution in Military Affairs, International Security, and Information
  Chris Hables Gray
4. Civil Violence and Information Technologies
• Bullets to Bytes: Reflections on ICTs and “Local” Conflict
  Rafal Rohozinski
• ICT and the World of Smuggling
  Carolyn Nordstrom
• Information Technologies and the Web Activism of the RevolutionaryAssociation of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) - Electronic Politics and NewGlobal Conflict
  Michael Dartnell
• The Internet's Mediation Potential in Protracted Conflicts: The Case of Burundi
  Rose Kandende-Kaiser

Click here to download the Introduction by Robert Latham from the "Bombs and Bandwidth" in PDF format [168 KB].

Click here to read an interview with Robert Latham featured in MSNBC Newsweek (October 28, 2003).

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