[governance] Monroe Doctrin for Cyberspace?

[William Drake]

Hi

On Jul 16, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:

> These simple paragraphs are the best deconstruction of the whole  
> argument in the rest of the paper : a Monroe Doctrine of "what is  
> mine is mine" (actually a misinterpretation of the actual Monroe  
> doctrine, but never mind),

It sure is.  The MD was about keeping the European powers out of Latin  
America at a time when decolonization and moves toward independence  
were underway, and it was accordingly welcomed by many there.  The  
obnoxious Roosevelt Corollary mandate for neo-imperialism was like 80  
years later. So the MD is a bit different from what's mine is mine or  
even what's yours is mine.  Hardly necessary to promote critical  
infrastructure protection within the US, and as Bertrand notes, she  
anyway calls for international collaboration, the opposite of MD, on  
transnational extensions.

This is just the kind of labeling and marketing spin people employ to  
get attention in DC.  It's a very crowded ideasphere, and the  
incentives to dress things up in gaudy Technicolor are substantial.   
Maybe she'll get an op-ed invite from the Wall St. Journal, maybe some  
Republican yahoo will invite her to testify on the hill or speak at  
the American Enterprise Institute, but then attention will drift.  The  
US will not be declaring a MD for cyberspace.

Next,

Bill


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