Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance: Volume 19 Issue 6

Guest editorial

Milton Mueller, Farzaneh Badiei

Is cybersecurity eating internet governance? Causes and consequences of alternative framings

Milton Mueller

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between cybersecurity governance and internet governance and to explore the effects of the current tendency for…

Patching security governance: an empirical view of emergent governance mechanisms for cybersecurity

Michel van Eeten

The issue of cybersecurity has been cast as the focal point of a fight between two conflicting governance models: the nation-state model of national security and the global…

Cybersecurity governance: a prehistory and its implications

Bradley Fidler

The purpose of this paper is to understand the emerging challenges of cybersecurity governance by analyzing the internet’s early history.

Mapping the cybersecurity institutional landscape

Brenden Kuerbis, Farzaneh Badiei

There is growing contestation between states and private actors over cybersecurity responsibilities, and its governance is ever more susceptible to nationalization. The authors…

Restrained by design: the political economy of cybersecurity

Jon Randall Lindsay

The empirical record of cyberattacks features much computer crime, espionage and hacktivism, but none of the major damage feared in prevalent threat narratives. The purpose of…