The Internet And Extended Research On Traditional Issues Of International Politics

Internet is the only international information highway currently, which connects the network of the computers in all over the world. Informationization, represented by the network, is a huge historical progress. It makes human overcome the limitations of the traditional industrial society, and it's also a leap of human science and technology. As the continuous development of Internet, its penetration and influence of the field of international politics become increasingly apparent. The field of international politics expands from reality to virtual, from the geo-space, the outer space into the cyberspace. Economic, military, political in international political, have been given the three pillars of the new features. The competition for the international political hegemony from the right of the sea, land, air, space power and wave power before into the right of information.This article mainly related to national sovereignty, national security and the international system, as the three traditional areas of international politics. With the emergence of the Internet, the traditional state sovereignty has been the impact of, and has showed four new features: the extension from the territorial waters and airspace information boarder development; show relativization tendency; to the diffusion of internal and external; the information technology, represented by the Internet, will exacerbate the de facto inequality of national sovereignty. With increasing showing of these new features, many counties pay more and more attention to their own information sovereignty.The national security in the network also showed the following new features: the threat become potential, instantaneity and diversification; non-state forces become one of the main information security threats; high networked counties are easier suffer information attacks; the "natural" effects of the geography basically disappeared, all the centers of a nation are easier to be direct attacked; the network information war under the nuclear threat will become the new situation of international conflict. In the network era, we can see the battlefield extended to the virtual space, and the terrorists can also make use of the help of the Internet to carry out sabotage activities.In the international system, on one hand, the development of the Internet makes chances to the developing countries to shorten the distance with developed countries, but on the other hand, it may have made up the phenomenon of information hegemony and the international system to have the Matthew Effect. The emergence and development of the Internet has accelerated the process of globalization obviously, but at the same time it made all the countries exposed to more problems of security and hegemony.