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China and technical global internet governance: Beijing’s approach to multi-stakeholder governance within ICANN, WSIS and the IGF
Since the late 1990s, the Chinese government has engaged in a process of attempting to reform the technical global internet governance regime, which is currently dominated by the US government and non-state actors. This article aims to contribute to the literature on Beijing’s approach to this issue by providing a detailed empirical account of its involvement in a few core regime organisations. It argues that Beijing’s reform approach is guided by its domestically derived preferences for strong state authority and expanding China’s global power, but that its reform efforts are unlikely to succeed based on countervailing structural hard- and soft-power factors.
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China: An International JournalVolume
12Issue
3Pagination
72 - 93Publisher
National University of Singapore, East Asian InstitutePublisher DOI
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0219-7472Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2014, National University of Singapore, East Asian InstituteUsage metrics
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