China, now the world’s second largest economy, is going to play an increasingly substantial role in multilateral economic organizations and mechanisms. 

Cyber technology challenges conventional mechanisms of deterrence and conflict management.

Big Data is changing our view of the world by changing our modes of approach, moving from analogue systems to digital-based knowledge.

While internet traffic is exploding and there is new costly infrastructure to be implemented, the “net neutrality” debate is raging.

Washington plays a leading role in Internet Governance, which is hardly surprising given the origins of the Internet and America’s technological ascendancy. However, the majority of Internet users are in non-Western countries. 

The Internet Governance debate opposes multilateral thinking, favoring the role of State and interstate bodies, with a multistakeholder model, which aims to unite all concerned actors: states, business, experts, academics and internet groups, among others. 

The Snowden affair could bring about major changes in the structure of the Internet and its governance. Technologies should now a priori integrate standards which give citizens the capacity to keep a check on what data is available.

Methodological debates about the stages of growth and the way in which a country goes through political modernization are long-established and manifold. 

Historically, states have indebted themselves to finance military campaigns. They do so nowadays for other reasons such as financing productive investment.