Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance

by Milton L. Mueller

Book Overview

When the prevailing system of governing divides the planet into mutually exclusive territorial monopolies of force, what institutions can govern the Internet, with its transnational scope, boundless scale, and distributed control? Given filtering/censorship by states and concerns over national cybersecurity, it is often assumed that the Internet will inevitably be subordinated to the traditional system of nation-states. In Networks and States , Milton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014599
• ISBN13: 9780262014595
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher