04605nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001600166072002300182072001500205100008100220245017200301250001800473264007900491300004400570336002600614337002600640338003600666347002400702505061000726520229801336650002903634650002903663650002003692650002503712650001503737650002903752650003603781650002303817650002503840650004403865710003403909773002603943776003603969776003604005776003604041856004604077978-3-031-63426-0DE-He21320251030113047.0cr nn 008mamaa240917s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316342607 a10.1007/978-3-031-63426-02doi 4aJZ2-6530 7aJPS2bicssc 7aPOL0110002bisacsh 7aJPS2thema1 aThumfart, Johannes.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Liberal Internet in the Postliberal Erah[electronic resource] :bDigital Sovereignty, Private Government, and Practices of Neutralization /cby Johannes Thumfart.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVI, 489 p. 16 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2:Conceptual, Terminological, and Methodological Clarifications -- Chapter 3: The Construction of Digital Sovereignty in Struggles for Recognition -- Chapter 4: Net Neutrality , State Neutrality, and Neutralization -- Chapter 5: The Critique of Liberal Neutrality and the Concept of Neutralization -- Chapter 6: The Neutralizing Mechanism of Liberalism -- Chapter 7: The Aporias of Liberalism Before the Digital Age -- Chapter 8: The Aporias of Liberalism in the Digital Age -- Chapter 9: Practices of Neutralization -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Beyond the End of History.  aDoes the internet have an ideology? Thumfart's erudite book convincingly demonstrates that it does. The internet instantiates a liberal ideology, both pro-trade and pro-globalization, an ideology which is increasingly under attack from various quarters, including from within itself. We face a liberal internet in a post-liberal era, Thumfart declares in this book that scholars will pore over to understand our digital world. - Anupam Chander, Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown University This book tackles the important and timely question of how societies should address the post-liberal turn in our near-global digital informatization politics… it is a compelling and important piece of work, expertly executed, and embedded in a thorough understanding of relevant debates and developments. - Florian Schneider, Professor of Modern China, Leiden University This book begins with an examination of the internet as a central institution of the post-Cold War liberal order. From this starting point, Johannes Thumfart analyzes the contemporary rise of digital sovereignty in Asia and Europe, alongside the establishment of private government within digital networks. He interprets these phenomena as indications of an emerging postliberal era. Thumfart engages with a wide array of empirical research and assesses liberal ideals such as state and net neutrality by discussing thinkers like Hegel, Schmitt, Mouffe, Taylor, Sandel, Fukuyama, Anderson, Jasanoff, and Girard, as well as network and rational choice theories. He contends that the internet's reification of liberal values has, paradoxically, subverted these values and catalyzed the transition to postliberalism. Thumfart suggests that instead of adhering to the traditional liberal focus on neutrality, states should adopt the more flexible approach of neutralization to respond to the complexities of this digital and postliberal era. Johannes Thumfart works at the intersection of STS and security studies, political philosophy, international law, and intellectual history. He is a fellow at the research group Law, Science, Technology, and Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research has been published in the Journal of Global Security Studies, Global Studies Quarterly, Grotiana, and AI and Ethics. 0aInternational relations. 0aSecurity, International. 0aWorld politics. 0aPolitical sociology. 0aEconomics.14aInternational Relations.24aInternational Security Studies.24aPolitical History.24aPolitical Sociology.24aPolitical Economy and Economic Systems.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303163425308iPrinted edition:z978303163427708iPrinted edition:z978303163428440uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63426-0