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The Global Governance of the Internet: Bringing the State Back In
Author(s) -
DREZNER DANIEL W.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
political science quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1538-165X
pISSN - 0032-3195
DOI - 10.2307/20202392
Subject(s) - globalization , politics , citation , state (computer science) , the internet , political science , corporate governance , global governance , internet governance , international relations , library science , sociology , media studies , law , management , world wide web , computer science , economics , algorithm
The accelerating pace of economic globalization has generated a lot of bad international relations theory. The loudest theoretical response to this phenomenon predicts a race to the bottom in wages, regulatory standards, and social protections.1 Although popular with antiglobalization protestors, the race to the bottom theory has the tragic flaws of dubious theoretical presump tions and meager empirical support.2 Another strand looks at the empower ment of nonstate actors, such as multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and transnational activist networks.3 Another segment of the literature debates the ability of international institutions to supply effec tive global governance.4 All of these strands focus on the decline of state auton omy relative to other forces in world politics. These "islands of theory" focus on small parts of the larger question of how globalization affects governance; as a result, this work fails to see the forest for the trees.