Power and Authority in Internet Governance

<p><em>Power and Authority in Internet Governance</em> investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's 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?</p><p>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.</p><p><i>Power and Authority in Internet Governance </i>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.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.</p>