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Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Conflict Resolution and U.S. Foreign Policy | Research Paper

From Tunis to Tunis: Considering the Planks of U.S. International Cyber Policy, 2005–2011

May 21, 2012 | Christopher Bronk
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Abstract

How have U.S. policies on the governance of the Internet and cyberspace evolved between the 2005 World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia and the massive, cyber-fueled uprisings in the Middle East of 2011? The paper develops a framework of possible actions regarding Internet or cyber governance to produce contexts for the timeline of significant policy statements by U.S. government officials and agencies on the topic. In the resulting narrative, Internet governance policy rises from a relatively marginal issue for the foreign policy establishment to a significant component of U.S. grand strategy. Because it covers a brief time period and focuses on a single actor (the United States), this narrative provides input as to how and how rapidly Internet politics and policies have become integral to international affairs.

 

 

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© 2012 by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University
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