The twenty-first century will feature unprecedented global transparency. From the advent of the Internet to the rise of global media to the proliferation of commercial satellites, more information will be available to more people about more things than ever before in human history. This increase in transparency is certain to have a major effect on international politics, and particularly on the possibility of armed conflict in the next millennium. This volume represents the first comprehensive collection of articles written by leading scholars and policy analysts examining the effects of transparency on world politics.

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BERNARD I. FINEL is Associate Director and Visiting Assistant Professor of National Security and International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

KRISTIN M. LORD is Assistant Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Transparency and World Politics; B.I.Finel & K.M.Lord The End of Secrecy; A.Florini From Balance to Concert: A Study of International Security Cooperation; R.Jervis Domestic Political Competition and Transparency in International Crises: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; K.A.Schultz Know Thine Enemy: Information and Democratic Foreign Policy; J.M.Ritter Press Freedom and Peace: Theory and Findings; D.A.Van Belle The Surprising Logic of Transparency; B.I.Finel & K.M.Lord Sources of Transparency: Information Systems in International Regimes; R.B. Mitchell The Implications of Emerging Satellite Information Technologies for Global Transparency and International Security; J.C.Baker & R.A.Williamson Transparency and the News Media; S.Livingston Beyond Transparency: Visibility and Fit in the Internationalization of Internal Conflict; C.Bob Diplomacy, Proof, and Authority in the Information Age; J.N.Rosenau Conclusions: Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency; B.I Finel & K.M.Lord