Description
Book SynopsisThe governance of the internet has gained a central role in global politics. International cooperation is increasingly mobilized to ensure that the expansion of connectivity infrastructure, digital services and their usages also safeguards security, human rights, and economic benefits. The field is truly transnational, including a vibrant stakeholder community that plays an active role in building sustainable ‘digital sovereignty’. Over the past decade, novel diplomatic practices have been adopted in negotiating technical standards, norms, regulations, and policies in the intersection of national and global priorities.
This book defines this novel tool for diplomatic dialogue as Internet Diplomacy, a concept that entails the broad range of emerging international practices clustered around digital environments, including cybersecurity and internet governance. In broadening our view of diplomacy in the digital age, the book includes a comprehensive collection of contributions and cases addressing Internet Diplomacy. Collectively, it expands our understanding of transformations in international diplomacy and transnational digital governance, their drivers and their nature, their capacity to challenge power relations, and, ultimately, the values they carry and channel onto the global scene.
Trade ReviewDigital infrastructure transcends sovereign boundaries and has become a new space for all manner of global conflict. This thought-provoking, insightful book explains how these Internet governance concerns require a new paradigm of diplomacy—Internet Diplomacy—with high stakes for global politics and the future of the Internet itself.
-- Laura DeNardis, American University, Washington DC
A most welcome exploration of new diplomatic practices in transnational politics. World-leading scholars of Internet governance combine rich empirical studies with broader analytical insights and normative reflections.
-- Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University and University of Duisburg-Essen
