Routledge Internet Governance The New Frontier of Global Institutions Oct 2008, Cyfryzacja, teoria internetu

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Internet Governance
International institutions are evolving quickly as innovative approaches need
to be adopted in order to deal with global problems that cannot be success-
fully addressed by the traditional system of nation-states. The expansion of
the Internet has been called the most revolutionary development in the history
of human communications. It is ubiquitous and is changing politics, econom-
ics, and social relations. Its borderless nature aects the roles of individuals,
the magic of the marketplace, and the problems of government regulation.
As its development has increased apace, contradictions have arisen between
existing regulatory regimes, private interests, government concerns, inter-
national norms, and national interests. Unlike most areas where there are
global institutions, and the role of governments is predominant, the Internet is
a
eld where the private sector and civil society each have a role as
important
or sometimes more important
—
John Mathiason is Professor of International Relations at the Maxwell School
of Citizenship and Public Aairs of Syracuse University. A former ocial
of the United Nations Secretariat, he is the author of Invisible Governance:
International Secretariats in Global Politics and many articles on global
governance.
than governments.
Based on international regime theory, this book analyses how the multi-
stakeholder institutions have grown along with the Internet itself. John
Mathiason shows how governance of the Internet began as a technical issue but
became increasingly political as the management of critical resources began to
con
ict with other international regimes and the Internet Governance Forum
was a compromise solution to a governance issue that did not
tneatlyinto
existing institutional structures. These new institutions will set precedents
for other areas where governance is necessary beyond the nation-state.
Internet Governance is an innovative multi-stakeholder approach to
dealing with global problems and ideal reading for students, teachers, and
researchers of politics of technology, digital politics, and governance.
—
Routledge Global Institutions
Edited by Thomas G. Weiss
The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
and Rorden Wilkinson
University of Manchester, UK
About the Series
The Global Institutions Series is designed to provide readers with comprehensive,
accessible, and informative guides to the history, structure, and activities of key
international organizations. Every volume stands on its own as a thorough and
insightful treatment of a particular topic, but the series as a whole contributes
to a coherent and complementary portrait of the phenomenon of global institu-
tions at the dawn of the millennium.
Books are written by recognized experts, conform to a similar structure, and
cover a range of themes and debates common to the series. These areas of
shared concern include the general purpose and rationale for organizations,
developments over time, membership, structure, decision-making procedures,
and key functions. Moreover, current debates are placed in historical perspec-
tive alongside informed analysis and critique. Each book also contains an
annotated bibliography and guide to electronic information as well as any
annexes appropriate to the subject matter at hand.
The volumes currently published or under contract include:
The United Nations and Human
Rights (2005)
A guide for a new era
by Julie Mertus (American
University)
The UN General Assembly (2005)
by M.J. Peterson (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
Internal Displacement (2006)
Conceptualization and its
consequences
by Thomas G. Weiss (The CUNY
Graduate Center) and
David A. Korn
The UN Secretary General and
Secretariat (2005)
by Leon Gordenker (Princeton
University)
United Nations Global Conferences
(2005)
by Michael G. Schechter (Michigan
State University)
Global Environmental Institutions
(2006)
by Elizabeth R. DeSombre
(Wellesley College)
The UN Security Council (2006)
Practice and promise
by Edward C. Luck (Columbia
University)
United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
(2007)
by Ian Taylor (University of
St. Andrews) and Karen Smith
(University of Stellenbosch)
The World Intellectual Property
Organization (2006)
Resurgence and the development
agenda
by Chris May (University of
Lancaster)
A Crisis of Global Institutions?
(2007)
Multilateralism and international
security
by Edward Newman (University of
Birmingham)
The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (2007)
The enduring alliance
by Julian Lindley-French (European
Union Centre for Security Studies)
The World Trade Organization
(2007)
Law, economics, and politics
by Bernard M. Hoekman (World
Bank) and Petros C. Mavroidis
(Columbia University)
The International Monetary Fund
(2007)
Politics of conditional lending
by James Raymond Vreeland (Yale
University)
The African Union (2008)
Challenges of globalization, security,
and governance
by Samuel M. Makinda (Murdoch
University) and F. Wafula Okumu
(Institute for Security Studies)
The Group of 7/8 (2007)
by Hugo Dobson (University of
Shef
The World Economic Forum (2007)
A multi-stakeholder approach to
global governance
by Geoffrey Allen Pigman
(Bennington College)
Commonwealth (2008)
Inter- and non-state contributions
to global governance
by Timothy M. Shaw (Royal Roads
University and University of the
West Indies)
The International Committee of the
Red Cross (2007)
A neutral humanitarian actor
by David P. Forsythe (University of
Nebraska) and
Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
(Central Washington University)
The European Union (2008)
by Clive Archer (Manchester
Metropolitan University)
The World Bank (2008)
From reconstruction to development
to equity
by Katherine Marshall (Georgetown
University)
The Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe (2007)
by David J. Galbreath (University
of Aberdeen)
eld)
Contemporary Human Rights Ideas
(2008)
by Bertrand G. Ramcharan (Geneva
Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies)
Institutions of the Global South (2009)
by Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner
(City College of New York)
Global Food and Agricultural
Institutions (2009)
by John Shaw
The United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
(2008)
The politics and practice of refugee
protection into the twenty-rst century
by Gil Loescher (University of
Oxford), Alexander Betts
(University of Oxford), and
James Milner (University of Toronto)
Shaping the Humanitarian World
(2009)
by Peter Walker (Tufts University)
and Daniel G. Maxwell (Tufts
University)
The International Organization for
Standardization and the Global
Economy (2009)
Setting standards
by Craig N. Murphy (Wellesley
College) and JoAnne Yates
(Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
The International Olympic Committee
and the Olympic System (2008)
The governance of world sport
by Jean-Loup Chappelet (IDHEAP
Swiss Graduate School of Public
Administration) and
Brenda Kübler-Mabbott
Institutions of the Asia-Pacic (2009)
ASEAN, APEC, and beyond
by Mark Beeson (University of
Birmingham)
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development
by Richard Woodward (University
of Hull)
Internet Governance (2009)
The new frontier of global institutions
by John Mathiason (Syracuse
University)
Non-Governmental Organizations in
Global Politics
by Peter Willetts (City University,
London)
The World Health Organization (2009)
by Kelley Lee (London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
The International Labour
Organization
by Steve Hughes (University of
Newcastle) and Nigel Haworth
(The University of Auckland
Business School)
International Judicial Institutions
(2009)
The architecture of international
justice at home and abroad
by Richard J. Goldstone (Retired
Justice of the Constitutional Court of
South Africa) and Adam M. Smith
(Harvard University)
Global Institutions and the HIV/
AIDS Epidemic
Responding to an international crisis
by Franklyn Lisk (University of
Warwick)
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