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New Global Agenda: Exploring 21st Century Challenges through Innovations in Information Technologies

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States17.918
Free, no sign-up neededJanuary IAP 2006English
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This workshop is designed to introduce students to different perspectives on international politics in the 21st century. Students will explore how advances in information technology are changing international relations and global governance through opening new channels of communication, creating new methods of education, and new potentials for democratization. We will consider the positive and negative externalities associated with applications of such technologies.

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