McNair Paper 59, Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age, Chapter 2, Notes, May 1998
Notes
1. George C. Lodge and Ezra F. Vogel, eds., Ideology and National Competitiveness: An Analysis of Nine Countries (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1987). In the concluding chapter Vogel argues that "countries with a coherent communitarian ideology have been best able to adapt to this international competitive economic system." The stellar performance of countries with a communitarian ideology can be illustrated by . . . their relative success in achieving governability, in expanding sectors with promise of growth, and in limiting damage in sectors that have lost hope of maintaining broad-based international competitiveness." Countries in the Vogel's top category include Japan and Korea; countries in his fourth category include the United Kingdom and the United States (303-306).2. Recent evidence of this is the opposition
—so far, successful—of the information technology industry to federal government proposals to hold in escrow the keys to private computer network encryption systems.3. Whether government action against Microsoft's dominant position is required in order to foster competition is beyond this essay's scope. If and as the government does act in this case, it is not a sign that the computer and communications industries are about to be regulated in any broad sense. Indeed, even Microsoft's principal critics within the industry have made clear that they are not looking for regulation.
4. Institute for Defense Analyses, Research Summary 3, no. 2 (1996).
5. Admittedly, this could be explained by their general pace of economic growth and modernization, which would make them both good customers and producers of information technology.
6. Christopher R. Kedzie, "Communications and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma," RAND Graduate School, Ph.D. dissertation, RGSD 127, RAND Report No. MR-678.0-RC (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1996).
7. William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963).
8. Samantha Fay Ravich, "Marketization and Prosperity: Pathways to East Asian Democracy," RAND Graduate School, Ph.D. dissertation, RGSD 132 (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1996).
9. Edward Gonzalez, Cuba Cleaning Perilous Waters? RAND Report MR-673-OSD, (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1996).
10. Michel C. Oksenberg, Michael D. Swaine, and Daniel C. Lynch, The Chinese Future, Pacific Council on International Policy and RAND Center for Asia-Pacific Policy, 1997.
11. There remain some sites that are blocked off, such as those advocating Tibetan secession. An excellent analysis of Beijing's gradual but inevitable retreat from its strategy of screening what the Chinese people learn via new information technologies can be found in Shaping U.S.-China Relation: A Long-Term Strategy, by Michel Oksenberg and Elizabeth Economy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1997).