Global Control: Information Technology and Globalization since 1845

Global Control aims to achieve a clearer understanding of the long process of globalization by focusing on the crucial role of information and control technologies.

Information systems and control technologies are key to globalization and, while generally facilitating the overall trend to spatial reorganization, they also effect change through the pervasive influence of 'internal systems logic'. Thus, the author argues, the dominant institutions of states, firms and markets transform global...