International Game Of The Internet And Collaborative Research

The development of the Internet brings great and profound influence on the content and form of the International Relations interaction. The international community is carrying out a series of game and cooperation, concerning the exploitation, construction, use and supervision of the Internet, and also in various fields where the Internet is utilized on the instrument sense. This new form of international game and cooperation has become the brand-new and vital phenomenon in the field of the International Politics. For the first time, this dissertation presents the grave problem of the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet explicitly and integrally. This dissertation applies the Marxist standpoint, viewpoint and method, and makes an in-depth, systemic and foresighted study on the basis of reviewing and referring to the exiting research production.From the research starting point of the development and changes of some basic problems the Internet has caused in the field of International Politics, this dissertation sets forth the essential concept of the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This dissertation believes that our era is characterized by the Internet and it has become the new platform of the international interaction, then it summarizes the development, changes and general situations of the international game and cooperation in the areas of politics, military, economics, culture and technology under the new circumstances. The effect and embodiment of the two different factors of competition and cooperation in the course of the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet is also the keynote of the paper, and also the content, features and answering tactics in different areas of the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet. In the end, this dissertation advances the content and assumption about the construction and perfection of the new international order of the Internet, and analyzes the basal strength and status of China in the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet, and suggests the corresponding strategies and measures aiming to enhance the national strength and capability.This dissertation is composed of the introduction and nine chapters. The introduction mainly puts forward the reasons and illuminates the significance of studying the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet, rounds up and combs the research status quo the domestic and foreign scholars have accumulated around this theme, and makes certain comments on it. The introduction also makes a brief explanation of the research train of the thoughts, the basic logic, the research methods, the frame of the content and the main initiatives of the paper.Chapter one: the development of the Internet and the International Politics. This part mainly elucidates the development, the features and the trends of the Internet and its double-edged effects on the human beings and the international community. This part puts the emphasis on the changes of some basic issues in International Politics (e.g. national sovereignty, national strength/power and national security, etc.) under the omnidirectional, powerful and penetrating influences of the Internet, and points out that the national information sovereignty, information security, network security, information strength and the maintenance of the cyberspace border are all the new issues and latest changes in the context of the Internet. Investigating and exploring these issues and changes are also the logic starting point of researching the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet.Chapter two: the basal problems of the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part establishes the general research frame for this theme. After analyzing the thoughts of game, cooperation, international game and cooperation and competition and cooperation, this part brings forward that the international game and cooperation, concerning the exploitation, construction, use and supervision of the Internet, has become the brand-new phenomenon in the International Politics interaction, and the Internet is also becoming the important strategic instrument of the contemporary various international game and cooperation. Furthermore, the strong penetrating strength of the Internet makes the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet and those in other areas or at other levels become mutually impacted and penetrated. This part elaborately analyses the actors participating the international game and cooperation, and categorizes the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet by different criteria, then points out that the Internet not only has the negative effect of aggravating the competitive degree of the international game, but also has the positive effect of alleviating the relationship and enhancing the international cooperation. This part advances a hypothesis that under circumstances of global mutual link and communication, cooperative game can better maintain the national interest and at the same time consider the common interest of the international community.Chapter three: the international political game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part firstly studies the political functions of the Internet, then analyses its effects on the politics, which are the ever-enlarging net political participation, the manifest trend of internationalization of the domestic politics, and the new challenges encountered by national political security. This part lays the emphasis on the content, features and the root reason of the international political game and cooperation in the context of the Internet, and offers the viewpoint about how to well balance the factors of the competition and cooperation in the international political game under the Internet circumstances. This part is concluded by discussing the importance and the measures of enhancing the national capability to deal with the international political game and cooperation in the context of the Internet.Chapter four: the international military game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part begins with summarizing the New Military Reforms driven by the New Technology Reform, then discusses the change of war form under the net condition, and differentiates the concepts of information war, electronic war and network war, and makes a comparison of the contemporary international military capability on the basis of cases and data. This part places the emphasis on analyzing the content and features of the international military game under the Internet condition, and probing into the problem that under the sophisticated circumstances that the international actors capable of applying the Internet to war aim are ever-increasing, how nation states can better hold the competitive and cooperative factors in the current international military game, grasp the power of controlling the information and the Internet, and secure the national security. As a conclusion, this part demonstrates the significance of having the initiative and enhancing the strength and capability in the international military game and cooperation concerning the Internet, and suggests the appropriate strategies and measures nation states should take.Chapter five: the international economic game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part firstly reviews the revolutionary effect of the Internet on the global economy, and then compares the current situations in which nations at different developing levels have achieved in utilizing the Internet to boost the economy. On the basis of the above analysis, this part works over the content, emphasis, and features of the international economic game and cooperation concerning the Internet, and elaborates that the standard competition concerning the Icts whose core technology is the Internet is directly related to the rising of the national economic strength and even the alternation of economic hegemony. This part believes that the leading industry capability acquired from the standard competition can be transformed into lasting industrial comparative advantage, and it can influence the competitive performance of the upriver and downriver industries and then the national economic comparative advantage. This part also sees the importance of translating the cooperative factors of the international economic game into practical action under the Internet circumstances. Furthermore, this chapter discourses upon the imbalance of the global economic development, the frangibility and the dilemma of the economy of the developing countries under the Internet condition. Along the train of the thoughts, it is vital for the nation states to take the pertinent strategies and measures to promote their capability in the contemporary international economic game and cooperation.Chapter six: the international technological game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part firstly analyses the strategic significance of the science and technology in building up the national competitive strength, and the revolutionary penetrating and guiding effect of the Icts whose core technology is the Internet on the development of the high and new technology. Then this part investigates and compares the national technological strength at different developing levels. This part also tries to prove that acquiring the dominant and commanding power of the leading technology and the dominant industry is the inevitable requisite of obtaining the advantageous status in all areas of international interaction but not limited to the international technological game and cooperation. This part stresses that the high and new technology whose core technology is the Internet has the significant impact on the international power distribution structure, and the developing countries must be alert to the technology monopoly and protectionism, and they must take the independent innovation as the fundamentality, improve the international technological game and cooperation under the Internet condition by enhancing the national technological competitive strength and secure the national technological security and the development in the long run.Chapter seven: the international cultural game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part begins with analyzing the significant effect of the Internet on the cultural radiation and development, and its different effect on countries at different developing levels. From the point of view of the communication theory, this part compares and analyzes the cultural radiation and influence of countries at different developing levels and its effect on the soft power construction. The features, the content and the trend of the current international cultural game are also dealt with in this part. Then this part puts forward that the net cultural power is the main reason of the cultural developing dilemma faced by many developing countries, and they must make a thorough study on how to enhance their cultural strength and capability in the international cultural game and cooperation in the context of the Internet in order to better maintain their national cultural sovereignty and security.Chapter eight: establish and perfect the new international order of the Internet. This part sums up the global problems accumulated in the Internet development, such as cyber-terrorism, cyber-crimes, protection of the intellectual property in the Internet context and the global or the regional network breakdown. This part discusses the technological, legal, supervisory and societal reasons that encourage the above problems and points out that the unfairness and irrationality of the current international order of the Internet badly influences the international community to achieve the practical and fruitful cooperation in the contemporary international interaction to solve the global problems concerning the Internet. This part finally propounds the assumption of perfecting the international order of the Internet in order to promote the international cooperation and the sound and sustainable development of the Internet.Chapter nine: China's strength, status and countermeasures in the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part objectively investigates and analyses China's basal strength, status, situation and problems in the international game and cooperation concerning the Internet. This part elaborates some corresponding suggestions and countermeasures in order to balance the competitive and cooperative factors in the international interaction, build up China's strength and capabilities in the international game and cooperation under the Internet condition, master the initiative power of the contemporary international interaction, and secure the national security development.