[Governance] BOOK: Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core

[Joly MacFie via Governance]

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-89478-7
>
> Authors: *Fiona M. Alexander , Laura DeNardis , Nanette S. Levinson ,
> Francesca Musiani*
> Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
>
> Hardback $139.99 (+Tax) | eBook $109.00  (also available via Amazon
> <https://www.amazon.com/Geopolitics-Internets-Information-Technology-Governance/dp/3031894774>
> )
>
> Contentious geopolitical conflicts over digital technologies have arisen
> around a complex set of technical specifications at the Internet’s core.
> One of these is the Internet Protocol (IP), designed for addressing and
> routing information to its destination. China redesigning the Internet?
> Ukraine asking that Russia be disconnected from the Internet? The U.S.
> ‘surrendering’ the Internet? The Internet Protocol - rightly or not - has
> been at the center of many digital policy concerns for decades.
>
> In examining entanglements between IP and public interest issues,
> Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core illuminates how technical infrastructure
> is now a proxy for political and economic power. Ongoing global
> controversies over the Internet Protocol ecosystem hint at its importance
> and why IP is a flashpoint mediating broader conflicts in various cultural
> and historic contexts.
>
> Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core analyzes the trajectory and possible
> futures of the Internet Protocol as a space mediating geopolitical and
> domestic controversies in an increasingly contentious digital world; it
> explains the IP ecosystem, a complex combination of virtual resources,
> abstract specifications, tangible infrastructure, functionally specific
> systems, and the institutions and rules that design and govern these
> systems.
>
> With a view toward the future and insights into the governance of emerging
> technologies, this book identifies eight IP-related levers of power that
> illuminate technology governance debates. Opening up the black box of the
> Internet Protocol and related global governance challenges, it explains the
> political battles and the stakes of these battles at the heart of the
> Internet.
>
> Part of the book series: Information Technology and Global Governance
> <https://link.springer.com/series/14855> (ITGG)
>
>
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