It's a good article but one criticism is that it views the cyberworld through a multilateral filter which is changing, particularly for that cyberworld. So I'll add Ian Bremmmer's provocative article also in Foreign Affairs which argues that such models are eroding as evidenced, if nothing else, by the problems outlined in Joseph Nye's article. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2021-10-19/ian-bremmer-big-tec... Is 400 years of Westphalian nation-state order coming to an end? If not in letter then perhaps in practice and effectiveness? It's not only cyberspace, but also immigration, trade, communications, warfare, transportation, culture, and even public health issues which clearly do not honor political borders. Royalty and aristocracy, the first phase of modern nation-state governance, did not like or respect the rise of the non-birthright nation state ca 1789, both democratic or otherwise. But by the end of WWI, and certainly WWII, they were in severe decline nonetheless and today are mostly colorful ornaments or autocrats with fancy titles, gone in barely 100 years. Perhaps we are at the cusp of such a change again and that is precisely why internet governance is so frustrating? It's like using the norms of aristocracy to reform land ownership? On January 3, 2022 at 13:12 wolfgang@kleinwaechter.info (Wolfgang Kleinwächter) wrote:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2021-12-14/end-cyber-anarchy
Wolfgang
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