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Joseph S Nye - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Information Revolution and soft power
Current History, 2014Co-Authors: Joseph S NyeAbstract:The rise of digital networks is diffusing power to new players. Fourth in a series on soft power.
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understanding global conflict and cooperation an introduction to theory and history
2013Co-Authors: Joseph S Nye, David A WelchAbstract:Chapter 1. Is There An Enduring Logic Of Conflict In World Politics? Chapter 2. Explaining Conflict And Cooperation: Tools And Techniques of the Trade Chapter 3. From Westphalia to World War I Chapter 4. The Failure of Collective Security and World War II Chapter 5. The Cold War Chapter 6. Post-Cold War Conflict and Cooperation Chapter 7. Globalization and Interdependence Chapter 8. Information Revolution and Transnational Actors Chapter 9. What Can We Expect in the Future?
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understanding international conflicts an introduction to theory and history
2008Co-Authors: Joseph S NyeAbstract:Preface Chapter 1- Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics? Chapter 2- Origins of the Great Twentieth-Century Conflicts Chapter 3- Balance of Power and World War I Chapter 4- The Failure of Collective Security and World War II Chapter 5- The Cold War Chapter 6- Intervention, Institutions, and Regional and Ethnic Conflicts Chapter 7- Globalization and Interdependence Chapter 8- The Information Revolution, Transnational Actors, and the Diffusion of Power Chapter 9- A New World Order?
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the Information Revolution and american soft power
Power in the Global Information Age, 2004Co-Authors: Joseph S NyeAbstract:The explosion of Information in the last decade has had more of a decentralizing than a centralizing effect on society, says Joseph S. Nye Jr., Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In the following article, Nye examines the possible effects of the Information Revolution on the domestic and foreign policies of governments, in particular the impact on soft power--the power of persuasion through ideas, cultures, and policies. Foreign policy will no longer be the sole province of governments as the centrality and functions of the sovereign state will change and political institutions will need to adapt to this brave new world. Nye concludes that the US has an edge in the current era of globalization but it should be careful not to negate the positive values of its soft power by acting unilaterally or arrogantly.
Raghuram G Rajan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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does distance still matter the Information Revolution in small business lending
Journal of Finance, 2002Co-Authors: Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanAbstract:The distance between small firms and their lenders is increasing, and they are communicating in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate they do not arise from small firms locating differently, consolidation in the banking industry, or biases in the sample. Instead, improvements in lender productivity appear to explain our findings. We also find distant firms no longer have to be the highest quality credits, indicating they have greater access to credit. The evidence indicates there has been substantial development of the financial sector, even in areas such as small business lending.
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does distance still matter the Information Revolution in small business lending
2000Co-Authors: Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanAbstract:The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small firms locating differently, from consolidation in the banking industry, or from biases in the sample. Instead, they seem correlated with improvements in bank productivity. We conjecture that greater, and more timely, availability of borrower credit records, as well as the greater ease of processing these, may explain the increased lending at a distance. Consistent with such an explanation, distant firms no longer have to be observably the highest quality credits, suggesting that a wider cross-section of firms can now obtain funding from a particular lender. These findings, we believe, are direct evidence that there has been substantial development of the financial sector, even in areas such as small business lending that have not been directly influenced by the growth in public markets. From a policy perspective, that small firms now obtain wider access to financing suggests the consolidation of banking services may not raise as strong anti-trust concerns as in the past.
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does distance still matter the Information Revolution in small business lending
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000Co-Authors: Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanAbstract:The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small firms locating differently, from simple consolidation in the banking industry, or from biases in the sample. Instead, they seem correlated with improvements in bank productivity. We conjecture that greater, and more timely, availability of borrower credit records, as well as the greater ease of processing these may explain the increased lending at a distance. Consistent with such an explanation, distant firms no longer have to be observably the highest quality credits, suggesting that a wider cross-section of firms can now obtain funding from a particular lender. These findings, we believe, are direct evidence that there has been substantial development of the financial sector in the United States, even in areas such as small business lending that have not been directly influenced by the growth in public markets. From a policy perspective, that small firms now obtain wider access to financing suggests the consolidation of banking services may not raise as strong anti-trust concerns as in the past.
Mitchell A Petersen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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does distance still matter the Information Revolution in small business lending
Journal of Finance, 2002Co-Authors: Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanAbstract:The distance between small firms and their lenders is increasing, and they are communicating in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate they do not arise from small firms locating differently, consolidation in the banking industry, or biases in the sample. Instead, improvements in lender productivity appear to explain our findings. We also find distant firms no longer have to be the highest quality credits, indicating they have greater access to credit. The evidence indicates there has been substantial development of the financial sector, even in areas such as small business lending.
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does distance still matter the Information Revolution in small business lending
2000Co-Authors: Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanAbstract:The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small firms locating differently, from consolidation in the banking industry, or from biases in the sample. Instead, they seem correlated with improvements in bank productivity. We conjecture that greater, and more timely, availability of borrower credit records, as well as the greater ease of processing these, may explain the increased lending at a distance. Consistent with such an explanation, distant firms no longer have to be observably the highest quality credits, suggesting that a wider cross-section of firms can now obtain funding from a particular lender. These findings, we believe, are direct evidence that there has been substantial development of the financial sector, even in areas such as small business lending that have not been directly influenced by the growth in public markets. From a policy perspective, that small firms now obtain wider access to financing suggests the consolidation of banking services may not raise as strong anti-trust concerns as in the past.
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does distance still matter the Information Revolution in small business lending
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000Co-Authors: Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanAbstract:The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small firms locating differently, from simple consolidation in the banking industry, or from biases in the sample. Instead, they seem correlated with improvements in bank productivity. We conjecture that greater, and more timely, availability of borrower credit records, as well as the greater ease of processing these may explain the increased lending at a distance. Consistent with such an explanation, distant firms no longer have to be observably the highest quality credits, suggesting that a wider cross-section of firms can now obtain funding from a particular lender. These findings, we believe, are direct evidence that there has been substantial development of the financial sector in the United States, even in areas such as small business lending that have not been directly influenced by the growth in public markets. From a policy perspective, that small firms now obtain wider access to financing suggests the consolidation of banking services may not raise as strong anti-trust concerns as in the past.
Jerrold D. Green - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Information Revolution and Political Opposition in the Middle East
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1999Co-Authors: Jerrold D. GreenAbstract:SINCE THE APPEARANCE over 40 years ago of Daniel Lerner's The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East, some observers of Middle East regional politics have ascribed great, if largely unexplained, societal signifi cance to the role of Information and communications in this rapidly changing and invariably hard to read region. Those persuaded by the profound if uncertain sociopolitical role of communications were both rewarded and analytically challenged by the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. This upheaval may be characterized as the first political Revolution in the Middle East, or anywhere else, that might not have succeeded had it not been for the Information Revolution. Although those of us who witnessed this cataclysmic event first hand did not as yet have the term "Information Revolution" as part of our conceptual tool-kit, we did document in rich if unsystematic detail the crucial and central role played by the accoutrements of communications in Iran's upheaval. Now that the Iranian Revolution is 20 years behind us, we should still be asking what we know about the role of Information in political opposition move ments in the Middle East. As the region is inundated by the next generation of communications tools such as the fax machine, cellular phones, beepers, the Internet, satellite television, and global positioning systems, will political life be more or less stable, will it be left undisturbed, or will it change in ways too profound to predict? For much of the western academic community concerned with the Middle East, the intellectual outcome of the Iranian Revolution was a fascination with Revolutionaries, but surprisingly not with Revolution itself as a process of radical and possibly rapid sociopolitical change. Colorful figures like Ayatollah Kho meini, Hasan al-Turabi, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, and Rashid al Ghannoushi make for fascinating research foci. Events in Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, and elsewhere have led to endless rumination about Islamism, Islamic fundamentalists, clashes of civilization, and other cultural considerations. Yet the actual processes of sociopolitical change have been largely ignored. And if Revolution, civil war, and other forms of upheaval are the product of breakdowns in sociopolitical order, then communications is certain to be central to these processes. Despite its evident importance, the precise role played by the informa tion Revolution remains unclear, even as the Middle East muddles through a period of profound uncertainty. While most of the world liberalizes and in many instances democratizes, most of the Middle East clings to arcane and probably doomed forms of government. There are more genuine, absolute monarchs in the Middle East than in the entire rest of the world combined. Even the United States has gone to war on behalf of monarchy (actually to preserve access to the oil controlled by Kuwait's Emir) and our closest friends in the Middle East are amongst the world's least democratic. Some American scholars have dealt with this ideological hardship by looking for the vestiges of democracy where little or
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The Information Revolution and Political Opposition in the Middle East
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1999Co-Authors: Jerrold D. GreenAbstract:Since the Appearance over 40 years ago of Daniel Lerner’s The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East, some observers of Middle East regional politics have ascribed great, if largely unexplained, societal significance to the role of Information and communications in this rapidly changing and invariably hard to read region. Those persuaded by the profound if uncertain sociopolitical role of communications were both rewarded and analytically challenged by the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. This upheaval may be characterized as the first political Revolution in the Middle East, or anywhere else, that might not have succeeded had it not been for the Information Revolution. Although those of us who witnessed this cataclysmic event first hand did not as yet have the term “Information Revolution” as part of our conceptual tool-kit, we did document in rich if unsystematic detail the crucial and central role played by the accoutrements of communications in Iran’s upheaval.
David Stuckler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The second Information Revolution: digitalization brings opportunities and concerns for public health.
European Journal of Public Health, 2019Co-Authors: Martin Mckee, May C I Van Schalkwyk, David StucklerAbstract:The spread of the written word, facilitated by the introduction of the printing press, was an Information Revolution with profound implications for European society. Now, a second Information Revolution is underway, a digital transformation that is shaping the way Europeans live and interact with each other and the world around them. We are confronted with an unprecedented expansion in ways to share and access Information and experiences, to express ourselves and communicate. Yet while these changes have undoubtedly provided many benefits for health, from Information sharing to improved surveillance and diagnostics, they also open up many potential threats. These come in many forms. Here we review some the pressing issues of concern; discrimination; breaches of privacy; iatrogenesis; disInformation and misInformation or 'fake news' and cyber-attacks. These have the potential to impact negatively on the health and wellbeing of individuals as well as entire communities and nations. We call for a concerted European response to maximize the benefits of the digital Revolution while minimizing the harms, arguably one of the greatest challenges facing the public health community today.