[governance] CNAS Commentary: "The Internet Yalta"

[Philipp Mirtl]

Dear list members,

 

For those who are interested, I forward you the link to a recently published commentary on WCIT-12: http://www.cnas.org/theinternetyalta.

 

The abstract reads as follows:

 

"The December 2012 meeting of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) may be the digital equivalent of the February 1945 meeting of the Allied powers in Yalta: the beginning of a long Internet Cold War between authoritarian and liberal-democratic countries. The battles over Internet governance that surfaced at WCIT are not just about competing visions of the Internet, with one side favoring openness and the other security. They are also about two different visions of political power - one in which that power is increasingly distributed and includes non-state actors, and one in which state power is dominant. At the Yalta Conference, Western democracies made two fundamental mistakes: first, they allowed naive statements of wishful thinking to supplant actual realities on the ground. Second, they overlooked the risk inherent in permitting ambiguous definitions. Both of these mistakes may have been repeated at WCIT."

 

Best regards,

 

 

Philipp Mirtl

 

Fellow / Adviser

Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik (oiip)

Austrian Institute for International Affairs

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E-Mail: philipp.mirtl at oiip.ac.at <mailto:philipp.mirtl at oiip.ac.at> 

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