Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance

by Milton L. Mueller

Book Overview

How institutions for Internet governance are emerging from the tension between the territorially bound nation-state and a transnational network society.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518570
• ISBN13: 9780262518574
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher