CITA ROBERT KEOHANE

Throughout the twentieth century, modernists proclaimed that

technological change would dramatically transform world
politics. In 1910 Norman Angell declared wars to be irrational
as a result of economic interdependence, and he looked
forward to the day when they would therefore be obsolete.1
Modernists in the 1970s saw telecommunications and jet travel
as creating a global village, and believed that the territorial
state was being eclipsed by nonterritorial actors such as
multinational corporations, transnational social movements,
and international organizations. Likewise, prophets of the
contemporary information revolution, such as Peter Drucker,
the Tofflers, and Esther Dyson, claim that it is bringing an end
to the hierarchical bureaucratic organization or is creating a
new feudalism with overlapping communities and jurisdictions
laying claim to multiple layers of citizens identities and
loyalties.