by Dr. Laura DeNardis American University; Yale Information Society Project Mark Raymond Centre for International Governance Innovation November 14, 2013
Kenneth Geers, The Tallinn Papers, Vol. 1, No. 1 2014: "The network of networks should help us to have a more peaceful future, but too often it seems that the internet today is merely a reflection of what came before – including crime, espionage, and warfare – and that the international security environment is still closer to Pandemonium than Paradise."
This article appeared in the September 24, 2012 edition of The Nation.This essay is adapted from Mark Mazower’s Governing the World: The History of an Idea, coming this month from the Penguin Press.
by Olli Heinonen Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Posted: November 4, 2010 "The IAEA, where I worked for 27 years until I stepped down in September as deputy director general, now inspects about 2
What are GPGs? Report. Definition: "The International Task Force on Global Public Goods has defined global public goods as "issues that are broadly conceived as important to the international community, that for the most part cannot or will not be adequa
Brad Burnham Jun 10, 2010 "Once you start thinking about large web platforms as governments, the logical question is what kind of government are they. One thing is for sure - none of these platforms are democracies. They are oligarchies controlled by founders, investors or shareholders. That may not be at all bad. As long as citizens (users) can move freely from one government to another with little switching cost, there is no reason to burden these polities with the inherent inefficiencies of popular democracy. But that does put a special premium on emigration policies and property rights. Do I own my data, can I export it freely? It also suggests that large networks that have strong network effects may someday need other incentives to act in the best interests of their citizens."
"In the end, the big networks on the web will all have to find a balance between state power and private initiative."