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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Acronyms | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Human Rights Approach to Globalization | |
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| Inside the Giant Globe | |
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| Turning the Globe | |
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| Meet a Nineteen-Year-Old Egyptian | |
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| Ways of Looking at Information Technology | |
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| Embarking on a Dissertation | |
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| From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation | |
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| The IT Revolution from a Post-Marxist Perspective | |
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| The Social Construction of the IT Revolution | |
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| On Regime Theory | |
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| Transformation of the State | |
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| Autonomy | |
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| Measuring Respect for Autonomy | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| The Rules of the Game are Forged | |
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| Telephony for the Global Economy | |
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| Telecom under Fordism | |
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| Change is in the Air | |
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| Who Wants How Much Competition? | |
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| A European Telecom Infrastructure that Meets Business Needs | |
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| The European Union Enters the Race for Competitiveness | |
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| Deepening Flexible Accumulation at the Uruguay Round | |
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| The Emerging IT Regime and its Organizations | |
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| In a Nutshell | |
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| Introducing the Internet | |
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| What is the Internet? | |
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| Three Major Phases of Codification | |
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| Areas of Internet Governance | |
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| Summary: New Rules Enter the IT Regime | |
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| The Rules of the Game are Enforced | |
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| Bringing Poor Economies in Line | |
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| A Fragile System | |
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| The IT Regime: Fuzzy at the Fringes | |
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| Rules Give Rise to Roles | |
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| The Peripheral State | |
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| How Enforcement Mechanisms Impose Roles | |
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| Ideology | |
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| An Intricate Division of Labor | |
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| Why Role Compliance is Rarely Complete | |
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| How Does One Study Role Compliance? | |
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| Investigating One Case but Learning about Many | |
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| Egypt in the World Economy | |
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| The State under Nasser | |
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| Sadat's Reign: Egypt is Isolated and Indebted | |
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| Mubarak until 1991: No More Bold Strategies | |
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| Creditors Close In | |
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| The First Three Enforcement Mechanisms Summarized | |
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| Egypt Undergoes Structural Adjustment (Mechanism One) | |
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| The European Union Seeks an Association Agreement (Mechanism Two) | |
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| The Globalization Elite Gains Influence (Mechanism Three) | |
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| And Autonomy? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Telecom Monopolist | |
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| Egypt's Telecom Sector: A Model of Mismanagement | |
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| USAID Calls for Reform (Mechanism Four) | |
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| The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Offers Assistance (Mechanism Five) | |
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| The State Commits Itself to Export-Led Growth | |
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| The Globalization Elite Demands Liberalization (Mechanism Three Revisited) | |
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| Now It's Moving | |
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| Egypt's IT Stakeholders | |
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| Hisham El Sherif Visits the United States | |
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| Back in Egypt | |
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| Sherif Founds the Information and Decision Support Center | |
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| Building a Support Network | |
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| Helping the State Understand its Debt | |
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| Giving the State Access to the Countryside | |
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| CAPMAS, the "Big Black Hole" | |
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| Outreach to International Peers | |
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| Core Actors Support the IT Stakeholders (Causal Power Six) | |
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| Egypt Gets its Internet Connection | |
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| Political Alliances are Consolidated | |
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| Mubarak Takes IT Policy Seriously (Mechanism Six) | |
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| A New Ministry for an Old Country | |
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| The President Gives a Speech | |
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| How is the Speech to Be Interpreted? | |
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| A Ministry is Born | |
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| What Does It All Mean? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Lessons | |
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| Inferences from the Egyptian Case | |
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| What Inferences Can a Single Case Yield? | |
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| The Background Factor | |
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| Enforcement Mechanism One: Structural Adjustment | |
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| Enforcement Mechanism Two: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership | |
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| Enforcement Mechanism Three: The Globalization Elite | |
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| Enforcement Mechanism Four: USAID and Telecom Reform | |
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| Enforcement Mechanism Five: The EU Supports Sector Reform | |
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| Enforcement Mechanism Six: The IT Stakeholders | |
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| Unexamined Enforcement Mechanisms | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| A World Full of Enforcement Mechanisms | |
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| Why is There So Little Resistance to Corporate Globalization? | |
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| What is To Be Done? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index | |