Resurgence of the State

Myriam Dunn is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel is Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Studies Research Initiative, Center for Business and Economic Development, Auburn University at Montgomery, USA. Victor Mauer is Head of Research at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

• Contents: Introduction, Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel; The reassertion of the state: governance and the information revolution, Jamal Shahin; Digital democracy and its application to the international arena - from 'deliberation' to 'decision', Alexander Siedschlag; The information revolution and the rules of jurisdiction in public international law, Mika Hayashi; Between transnational take-off and national landing: jurisdictional dynamics in the domain name area, Dirk Lehmkuhl; The return of the state in cyberspace: the hybrid regulation of global data protection, Ralf Bendrath; Conclusion, Myriam A. Dunn and Victor Mauer; Index.

’...shows that states still play a powerful regulatory role in the global age of "cyberspace", amid the complexity of multi-level governance. It puts information technologies in context as only one among many factors shaping rules and regimes in several policy areas, and contributes a well-informed point of view to current debates about globalization in international relations, technology studies, and governance theory.’ Charles D. Raab, University of Edinburgh, UK