Information Technology and the New World Order
Pax Romana, Britannica, Americana
The Internet Is Also a Surveillance State
The Political Empire of Connected Things
States Don’t Own It, Though They Fight Hard to Control It
But It’s Not a Westphalian—or Feudal—World
The Dictator’s Digital Dilemma
4. Five Premises for the Pax Technica
Learning from the Internet Interregnum
First Premise: The Internet of Things Is Being Weaponized
Second Premise: People Use Devices to Govern
Third Premise: Digital Networks Weaken Ideologies
Fourth Premise: Social Media Solve Collective Action Problems
Fifth Premise: Big Data Backs Human Security
5. Five Consequences of the Pax Technica
First Consequence: Networked Devices and the Stability of Cyberdeterrence
Second Consequence: Governance Through the Internet of Things
Third Consequence: From a Clash of Civilizations to a Competition Between Device Networks
Fourth Consequence: Connective Action and Crypto Clans
Fifth Consequence: Connective Security and Quality of Life
The Downside of Connective Security
6. Network Competition and the Challenges Ahead
My Girlfriend Went Shopping . . . in China
Other Challenges (That Are Lesser Challenges)
Rival Devices on Competing Networks
7. Building a Democracy of Our Own Devices
Internet Succession: Computers, Mobiles, Things
The Hope and Instability of Hackers and Whistle Blowers
Firing the Social Scientists—and Training New Ones
Putting the Civic into the Internet of Things, Domestically
Device Networks and Foreign Affairs