<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Samantha Bradshaw</b> <<a href="mailto:sbradshaw@cigionline.org">sbradshaw@cigionline.org</a>><br>Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2015<br>Subject: GCIG Paper No. 17 now online: The Emergence of Contention in Global Internet Governance<br>To: RAN Members <<a href="mailto:ran@ourinternet.org">ran@ourinternet.org</a>><br><br><br>





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Today the GCIG secretariat issued working paper No. 17 by Samantha Bradshaw, Laura DeNardis, Fen Osler Hampson, Eric Jardine and Mark Raymond.
<i>The Emergence of Contention in Global Internet Governance</i> can be downloaded and read by visitin</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">g:
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https://ourinternet.org/publication/the-emergence-of-contention-in-global-internet-governance/</a>.<span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This paper draws on international relations theory to argue that the emergence of contention in Internet governance entails a twofold shift in the nature of the
 problems posed by Internet governance: first, cooperation problems have emerged where few previously existed; and second, existing coordination problems have become increasingly difficult to manage as a result of a rapidly increasing number of players and
 heightened distributional consequences. The paper provides four complementary explanations for the shift in the underlying problem structure: extrinsic uncertainty, changing market conditions, declining US dominance in the Internet governance system and social
 processes of institutional change and regime complex formation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It would be greatly appreciated if you shared the link to this new research paper with your colleagues via your social networks. For those of you on Twitter, we
 have simplified the sharing process by drafting the following Tweet:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What’s causing contention in global #InternetGovernance? New @OurInternetGCIG report explores:
<a href="http://ow.ly/PU2H5" target="_blank">http://ow.ly/PU2H5</a>     <u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The authors of the report can be found on Twitter at the following usernames: @sbradshaww @LauraDeNardis @fenhampson @ehljardine and @mraymondonir.<b><i>
</i></b><span style="color:black">Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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