Innovations in Global Governance: Toward a Distributed Internet Governance Ecosystem

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefaan Verhulst ◽  
Beth Simone Noveck ◽  
Jillian M Raines ◽  
Antony Declerq
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Internet Governance

Internet Governance

2011 ◽  
pp. 468-483
Author(s):  
Lauren Movius
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
World Summit ◽  
Technical Issue ◽  
Domain Name ◽  
Formal Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
National Governments

As the Internet has spread globally, and its economic, political, and cultural influences have increased, it is necessary to develop appropriate policy to govern it, in order to manage and protect it’s presence in our lives. While national governments apply their laws on the Internet, the Internet presents many issues that span national jurisdictions, and therefore requires global governance. Early Internet governance was self-regulatory and involved organizations and a community of users that made decisions through rough consensus. ICANN and the technical issue of domain name and addressing began debates over the issue of Internet governance. Larger issues of Internet governance emerged during the World Summit on the Information Society, whose existence illustrates the shift towards accepting the need for a global, more formal framework of governance. This chapter explores Internet governance and covers the following themes: understanding the challenge of governing the Internet; frameworks and definitions of Internet governance; and the evolution of the Internet governance debate. As there is much disagreement about what Internet governance is, this chapter synthesizes the main issues and debates and provides an overview of Internet governance.

scholarly journals Conclusion: Reflections on a Global Issue Domain

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-204
Author(s):  
Roxana Radu
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Global Fields ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Over Time

The final chapter sums up the findings of the book and highlights the contributions of this study to international relations and to Internet governance, both theoretically and empirically. It clarifies how the findings of this research fit in the ongoing policy debates and in the global governance scholarship, while providing clues for understanding current trends and developments in the field. Reflecting on the value of the research agenda proposed here, this chapter notes the theoretical implications of studying the origins and articulation of global fields of power over time. Last but not least, it offers analytical directions for future explorations of governance emergence and structuration in nascent policy domains.

scholarly journals U.S. & China Approaches to Global Internet Governance: "New Bipolarity" in Terms of "the Network Society"

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-33
Author(s):  
Denis Degterev ◽  
◽  
Mirzet Ramich ◽  
Danil Piskunov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Present System ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Power Transition ◽  
Centralized Model

From the perspective of power transition theory, international relations system is gradually entering the phase of "power transition" where the United States, as a global hegemon, seeks to maintain the existing world order, and China establishes alternative international formats to reorganize the system of international relations and strengthen its structural power. Cyberspace and technological sphere are becoming the field of non-violent competition between states, which makes the study of global governance of cyberspace critical for the understanding of the outlines of the "new bipolarity". The analysis in the paper is focused on U.S. & China approaches to global governance of cyberspace through the prism of Manuel Castells' theory of "network society". The authors aimed to determine the directions of the U.S. and China policy in the course of four types of "power" in cyberspace: networking power, network power, networked power and network-making power. Present analysis concludes that the United States play crucial role in the course of all four types of "power" at the expense of decentralized model of Internet governance which is based on the idea of "multistakeholderism". NGO and other entities play a decisive role in such a model. Nonetheless, China has already developed necessary tools for reforming the present system of global governance of cyberspace based on centralized model with the leading role of United Nations as an international governance organization and state as a basic actor. The main beneficiaries of the centralized model are developing countries, which are unable to influence the global governance of cyberspace under the dominance of private companies from developed countries.

scholarly journals Legitimacy in Multistakeholder Global Governance at ICANN

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-324
Author(s):  
Hortense Jongen ◽  
Jan Aart Scholte
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
The Core ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Legitimacy Beliefs

Abstract This article examines levels and patterns of legitimacy beliefs toward one of today’s most developed global multistakeholder regimes, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Two complementary surveys find that levels of legitimacy perceptions toward ICANN often rank alongside, and sometimes ahead of, those for other sites of global governance, both multilateral and multistakeholder. Moreover, average legitimacy beliefs toward ICANN hold consistently across stakeholder sectors, geographical regions, and social groups. However, legitimacy beliefs decline as one moves away from the core of the regime, and many elites remain unaware of ICANN. Furthermore, many participants in Internet governance express only moderate (and sometimes low) confidence in ICANN. To this extent, the regime’s legitimacy is more fragile. Extrapolation from mixed evidence around ICANN suggests that, while multistakeholder global governance is not under existential threat, its legitimacy remains somewhat tenuous.

scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Roxana Radu
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Internet Regulation ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Technical Features

This book examines the emergence and evolution of global Internet governance, revealing its mechanisms, key actors, and dominant community practices. Based on extensive empirical analysis covering more than four decades, it presents the evolution of Internet regulation from the early days of networking to more recent debates on algorithms and artificial intelligence, putting into perspective its politically mediated system of rules built on technical features and power differentials. The introductory chapter places the problematique explored in this book against a broader context and establishes the link with contemporary global governance scholarship. It discusses the objectives of the book, as well as the conceptual and empirical approach applied for reaching them.

scholarly journals Internet Governance: A Developing Nation's Call for Administrative Legal Reform

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surya Mani Tripathi ◽  
Anshu Pratap Singh ◽  
Dipa Dube
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Global Village ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Barriers ◽  
Networked Society

AbstractThe internet has emerged as a reservoir of information and has pushed the world to evolve into a global village. Increased communication across political, social and economic barriers has created a virtual society of its own. This networked society poses considerable challenges for Internet Governance. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the institution responsible for the internet management. ICANN has been at the center of the debates over global governance of the internet. Key concerns raised in these debates involve the legitimacy of institutions as well as the participation of developed and developing nations in Internet governance.

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