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Modernization, driven by the Internet; mobile electronics; and television influence societies everywhere. This electronic empowerment is likely to have an especially dramatic influence on non-Western nations. Explore what the revolutionary political and economic impacts are as modern technologies advance, and examine whether or not the spread of military modernization will cause more violence within--and between--countries. Was the Arab Spring an early sign of such upheavals and are there more to come in the region? Will African, Latin American, and Asian peoples revolt or adapt? How will the American, Western European, and Japanese global position be affected? Will a more intensely competitive economic environment emerge? Can these technologies reduce poverty, inequality, and environmental problems? Will the outcome be greater international disorder or greater cooperation? How will leaders, including those from the United States, act and react? Examine these and other key questions in the context of current world affairs.
