Governance, Regulation and Powers on the Internet

Digital technologies have prompted the emergence of new modes of regulation and governance, since they allow for more decentralized processes of elaboration and implementation of norms. Moreover, the Internet has been raising a wide set of governance issues since it affects many domains, such as individual rights, public liberties, property rights, economic competition, market regulation, conflict management, security and the sovereignty of states. There is therefore a need to understand how technical, political, economic and social norms are articulated, as well as to understand who the main actors of this process of transformation are, how they interact and how these changes may influence international rulings. This book brings together an international team of scholars to explain and analyse how collective regulations evolve in the broader context of the development of post-modern societies, globalization, the reshaping of international relations and the profound transformations of nation-states.

Eric Brousseau is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris Ouest and at the Global Governance Programme of the European University Institute in Florence. He was the director of EconomiX, a joint research center between the CNRS and the University of Paris Ouest, from 2005 to 2011.

Meryem Marzouki is a senior researcher with the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and currently works at the Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6).

Cécile Méadel is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Mines, Paris and a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, a joint research centre between Mines-Paristech and the CNRS.