The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime

DERRICK L. COGBURN Assistant Professor of Information and African Studies at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, USA MARIE-HELENE FANDEL Has worked for several multilateral organizations, most recently at the World Bank D. LINDA GARCIA Professor and Director of the Communication, Culture & Technology Program at Georgetown University, USA DOROTHEE HEISENBERG Assistant Professor in European Studies at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, USA BRIAN KAHIN Visiting Professor II at the School of Information, Ford School of Public Policy, and Department of Communication Studies of the University of Michigan, USA HANS KLEIN Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA MILTON MUELLER Associate Professor at Syracuse University, Director of Telecommunications and Information Management, and Director of the Convergence Center. J.P. SINGH Assistant Professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology program at Georgetown University, USA DALE THOMPSON Doctoral student in the Telecommunications and Information management program of Syracuse University. JONATHAN ZITTRAIN Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, USA

List of Tables and Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Processes of Emergence; S.Braman The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime; S.Braman Codification in Context; B.Kahin ICANN and INTELSAT: Global Communication Technologies and their Incorporation into International Regimes; M.Mueller and D.Thompson The Persistence and Breakdown of Exclusion and Territoriality in Global Telecommunications Regimes; J.P.Singh Projecting EU Regimes Abroad: The EU Data Protection Directive as Global Standard ; D.Heisenberg and M-H.Fandel Networks and the Evolution of Property Rights in the Global, Knowledge-based Economy; D.L.Garcia Implications of Elite Decision-making for Global Information Policy; D.L.Cogburn Private Governance for Global Communications: Technology, Contracts and the Internet; H.Klein Internet Points of Control; J.Zittrain References Index