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OPEN NETWORKS, CLOSED REGIMES
The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule

Jan 2003

<http://www.ceip.org/files/publications/publicationsmain.ASP>

About the Authors
Shanthi Kalathil is associate in the Information Revolution and World
Politics Project at the Carnegie Endowment. Previously, she was a Hong
Kong-based staff reporter for The Asian Wall Street Journal. She has written
extensively on Asian politics in the Information age. Taylor C. Boas is
pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California,
Berkeley. They are the authors of The Internet and State Control in
Authoritarian Regimes: China, Cuba, and the Counterrevolution (Carnegie
Working Paper No. 21).

About the Book
As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that
the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule.
Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on
anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this conventional wisdom
has informed the views of policy makers, business leaders, and media pundits
alike. Yet few studies have sought to systematically analyze the exact ways
in which Internet use may lay the basis for political change.

In Open Networks, Closed Regimes, the authors take a comprehensive look at
how a broad range of societal and political actors in eight authoritarian
and semi-authoritarian countries employ the Internet. Based on methodical
assessment of evidence from these cases-China, Cuba, Singapore, Vietnam,
Burma, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt-the study contends
that the Internet is not necessarily a threat to authoritarian regimes.


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