Global Governance Facing Structural Changes: New Institutional Trajectories for Digital and Transnational Capitalism (Information Technology and Global Governance)

"Contemporary global governance is a field of competing institutional schemes and system of rules. We are at the juncture between old and new, not knowing how to read facts or how to explain processes-in-the-making. Yet, it is more important than ever to analyze new institutional trajectories and the emergence of new institutions to understand their interaction and how they can help renew collective action in a brand new world of global digital capitalism. International political economy and International relations theories have struggled to explain institutional changes as it concentrated on explaining international cooperation and order. This book contrasts international regimes and global governance and present a historically based explanation of the shift from one to the other, while addressing significant case studies looking at telecommunications and the Internet, labor and culture as well as the new schemes addressing trade dispute resolution. In addition, it analyzes the interaction between remaining forms of international regimes and new institutional frameworks, with a particular look at the impact of new technologies on these emerging forms of governance. "-- "Contemporary governance is a contested field of competing institutional schemes and system of rules. This book analyzes new institutional trajectories, the renewal of old institutions or the emergence of new ones, to understand their interaction and how they can help renew collective action in a new world of global digital capitalism"-- "Contemporary global governance is a field of competing institutional schemes and system of rules. We are at the juncture between old and new, not knowing how to read facts or how to explain processes-in-the-making. Yet, it is more important than ever to analyze new institutional trajectories and the emergence of new institutions to understand their interaction and how they can help renew collective action in a brand new world of global digital capitalism. International political economy and International relations theories have struggled to explain institutional changes as it concentrated on explaining international cooperation and order. This book contrasts international regimes and global governance and present a historically based explanation of the shift from one to the other, while addressing significant case studies looking at telecommunications and the Internet, labor and culture as well as the new schemes addressing trade dispute resolution. In addition, it analyzes the interaction between remaining forms of international regimes and new institutional frameworks, with a particular look at the impact of new technologies on these emerging forms of governance."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-15 Internet Governance Institutionalization: Process and Trajectories....Pages 17-35 Beyond Turf Wars in Internet Governance: The Relationship between Internet Organizations and IGOs....Pages 37-58 Conceptualizing Institutional Changes in a World of Great Transformations: From the Old Telecommunications Regime to the New Global Internet Governance....Pages 59-78 The World Trade Organization and Preferential Trade Agreements: The Case of Cultural Goods and Services....Pages 79-90 Copyright and Intellectual Property as By-Products of a New Power Relationships between Cultural Stakeholders....Pages 91-100 Humanizing Trade: A North American Perspective in the Making....Pages 101-126 EU and NAFTA International Agreement Dispute Settlement Mechanisms....Pages 127-155 Conclusion....Pages 157-161 Back Matter....Pages 163-192