Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: Toward Cyber Peace

Many pressing environmental and security threats now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers. From climate change and cyber-attacks to the associated challenges of space weaponization and orbital debris mitigation, solutions to all of these issues have at their root some form of regulation over the 'global commons'. Yet governance over these spaces is now transitioning away from multilateral treaties to regional and bilateral accords. This book makes an original contribution by comparing and contrasting some of the principal issues facing the frontiers. It analyzes how and why existing governance structures are often failing to adequately meet global collective action problems, with special coverage on cybersecurity and Internet governance. It proposes a new way forward incorporating lessons from successful regimes as well as the interdisciplinary scholarship on polycentric governance, arguing that multi-stakeholder collaboration is imperative in order to avoid tragedies of the global commons.

Author: Scott J. Shackelford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/05/2020
Pages: 516
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781108427739

About the Author
Shackelford, Scott J.: - 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.