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As the Netmundial conference on the future of Internet governance starts, rather than asking "What can we expect from it?", perhaps we might ask instead whether this future might be more promisingly reformed by political ...
The Verizon or PRISM or Snowden affair, revealed by The Guardian, marks a turning point in the history – a very young history – of the Internet and its governance within the international landscape. With the facts ...
Ivo Ivanovski is the Republic of Macedonia's Minister of Information Society and Administration, and was appointed as Chairman of the Fifth World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum that took place in Geneva from 14-16 May ...
Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing When It’s Most Needed, Thomas Hale, David Held & Kevin Young Polity Press, £55.00. Gridlock sets out to explore a growing failure in global governance, whereby countries are ...
Last year in Geneva during GLOBAL+5, our inaugural festival of global governance, David Held – a seasoned academic versed in the topic and born to be a member of our jury – was very much preoccupied ...
The 2008 crisis is special in that it will soon be renamed the 2008-2014 crisis. We know crises as emerging sharply and fading rapidly – this one is taking its time. We are experiencing a longue ...
Making the European Monetary Union, Harold James, Harvard University Press, $35.00. It is hard to read Making the European Monetary Union. Not because the euro is part of the story, but because the clarity ...
To see clearly is a difficult task. At night, or when there is too much light, when tired, or when too many people are around, where the rush of events is clouding our ability to ...
On Borders, Ostkreuz Agency Photographers, Hatje Cantz, Ð38.00. They offer protection, lead to war, limit freedom or enable it; they have always been there and will continue to exist: borders. Hardly anything else is ...
The World Conference on International Communications (WCIT-12) begins in Dubai on 3 December. Convened by the ITU, the UN agency in charge of telecommunications, WCIT-12 looms as a turning point for the Internet’s governing ...
The upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai looms as a moment of truth for the Internet’s governing rules and economic model. In all, representatives of 193 countries will come together to ...
Whenever one thinks of ‘Global Governance’, it appears it must be an impossible task. Such a vast challenge in starting with multiple, competing interests, before ultimately ending up with one single voice, agreement or rule ...
Could we see, beginning in Dubai in December, the end of the Internet as we know it? The 193 member states making up the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are scheduled to meet next month to ...
An interview with George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece, about debt, the challenge of structural reform, and governance in a time of crisis. At what point did you realize that your European counterparts, beyond ...
DUST: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture, Xenia Nikolskaya, Dewi Lewis Publishing, £30. Egypt is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and has a colonial history that stretches back centuries. From 1882 until ...
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