Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age

Scott J. Shackelford is Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Cybersecurity Program Chair at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance. He is the author of Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace (Cambridge, 2014). Both Professor Shackelford's academic work and teaching have been recognized with numerous awards, including a Harvard University Research Fellowship, Stanford University Hoover Institution National Fellowship, University of Notre Dame Distinguished Fellowship, the 2014 Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and the 2015 Elinor Ostrom Award.

• Part I. Cyber-What? Understanding the Roots of Cybersecurity and Other Collective Action Problems in the Information Age: 1. Governance at the frontiers of international relations: definitions and assumptions; 2. Managing cyber attacks as a global collective action problem; Part II. Security and Environmental Threats Facing the Frontiers: Case Studies in Commons Management and Their Application to Cybersecurity and Internet Governance: 3. On climate change and cyber attacks: leveraging polycentric governance to help heal the planet and promote cyber peace; 4. Was Selden right? The expansion of closed seas and its consequences; 5. Governing the final frontier: a polycentric approach for managing space weaponization and debris; Part III. Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: 6. The future of frontiers.

'In this pioneering work, Scott Shackelford takes a long overdue multi-disciplinary look at various global commons to tease loose lessons that can inform governance and security in cyberspace. Finding that cyberspace is an 'imperfect commons' comprised of shared global infrastructure, Professor Shackelford draws on these lessons to craft surgically an insightful polycentric approach to fostering 'cyber peace' in this 'frontier of international relations.'  It is an approach that is thoughtful, inclusive, practical, and value-driven - one that takes thinking on the subject to the next level and will move multi-stakeholder dialogue on cyberspace governance in exactly the right direction. A must-read.' Michael Schmitt, University of Exeter