The Evolution of Global Internet Governance Principles and Policies in the Making /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Radu, Roxana (Editor), Chenou, Jean-Marie (Editor), Weber, Rolf H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; Computers.; Law and legislation.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Intellectual property > Law and legislation.; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law.; Legal Aspects of Computing.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

The volume explores the consequences of recent events in global Internet policy and possible ways forward following the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12). It offers expert views on transformations in governance, the future of multistakeholderism and the salience of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Global Internet Policy: a Fifteen-Year Long Debate
• Part 1. Actors, Institutions and Principles of Internet Governance
• Chapter 1 Global Internet Governance: Governance without Governors
• Chapter 2 Competing Institutional Trajectories for Global Regulation—Internet in a Fragmented World
• Chapter 3 Internet Freedom and the Constitutionalization of Internet Governance
• Part 2. Multistakeholderism and its Limits
• Chapter 4 Internet Governance: The Last Gasp of Colonialism, or Imperialism by Other Means?
• Chapter 5 Visions of Political Power: Treaty Making and Multistakeholder Understanding
• Chapter 6 Use [and Abuse] of Multistakeholderism in the Internet
• Part 3. Internet Security between Competition and Cooperation
• Chapter 7 Chinese Internet Governance—Some Domestic and Foreign Issues
• Chapter 8 Extending Cybersecurity, Securing Private Internet Infrastructure: the US Einstein Program and its Implications for Internet Governance
• Chapter 9 Open Security. Contributions of Networked Approaches to the Challenge of Democratic Internet Security Governance
• Conclusions and Way Forward. From Nested Dilemmas to Democratic Internet Governance.