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The Globalization, Innovation, and Development Speaker Series presents, "Negotiation and the Global Information Economy" with JP Singh, Georgetown University.
J. P. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University and Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal Review of Policy Research, the politics and policy of science and technology. He is the author of Negotiation and the Global Information Economy(Cambridge 2008), Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring(1999), and co-editor of Information Technologies and Global Politics(with James N. Rosenau, 2002). His current book projects are: The Arts of Globalization (Columbia, forthcoming) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Creating Norms in a Complex World(Routledge, forthcoming). He has also authored over three-dozen scholarly articles. He has been a visiting scholar at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and the New America Foundation in Washington, DC.
