Blayne Haggart - Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?

Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in todays digital society. The book asks: Is the state back in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future?

The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed and how it should be governed.

Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.

Blayne Haggart is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada, and Research Fellow, Kte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Natasha Tusikov is Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University in Toronto and a visiting fellow with the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

Jan Aart Scholte is Chair of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

The Routledge Global Cooperation series develops innovative approaches to one of the most pressing questions of our time how to achieve cooperation in a culturally diverse and politically contested global world?

Many key contemporary problems such as climate change and forced migration require intensified cooperation on a global scale. Accelerated globalisation processes have led to an ever-growing interconnectedness of markets, states, societies and individuals. Many of todays problems cannot be solved by nation states alone and require intensified cooperation at the local, national, regional and global level to tackle current and looming global crises.

Series Editors:

Tobias Debiel, Dirk Messner, Sigrid Quack and Jan Aart Scholte are Co-Directors of the Kte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Their research areas include climate change and sustainable development, global governance, internet governance and peacebuilding. Tobias Debiel is Professor of International Relations and Development Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Director of the Institute for Development and Peace in Duisburg, Germany. Dirk Messner is President of the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt UBA). Sigrid Quack is Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Jan Aart Scholte is Professor of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, Netherlands.

Patricia Rinck is editorial manager of the series at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research.

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Power and Authority in Internet Governance

Return of the State?

Edited by Blayne Haggart, Natasha Tusikov and Jan Aart Scholte

Edited by Blayne Haggart, Natasha Tusikov and Jan Aart Scholte

First published 2021

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Olga Cavalli is an internet leader whose work has been fundamental for enhancing a relevant participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in internet governance. She is the Co-founder and the Academic Director of SSIG, the South School on Internet Governance, and ARGENSIG, the Argentina School on Internet Governance. Both schools grant fellowships for attending an intensive training on internet governance, organised in different countries of the Americas. She co-edited the book Internet Governance and Regulations in Latin America, published in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the South School on Internet Governance and available online in three languages. Olga is also an active member of the Internet Society (ISOC), serving as a member of the ISOC Board of Trustees and in the ISOC Foundation Board. She is an active participant in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where she served as Vice Chair of the Governmental Advisor Committee and Vice Chair of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, among other activities. Olga is a professor at the Economic School of the University of Buenos Aires, and she has a PhD in business direction, a masters degree in business administration, a masters degree in telecommunications regulation, and a degree in electronic and electric engineering.