05030nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-63426-0 DE-He213 20251030113047.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240917s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031634260 978-3-031-63426-0 10.1007/978-3-031-63426-0 doi JZ2-6530 JPS bicssc POL011000 bisacsh JPS thema Thumfart, Johannes. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84466 The Liberal Internet in the Postliberal Era [electronic resource] : Digital Sovereignty, Private Government, and Practices of Neutralization / by Johannes Thumfart. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVI, 489 p. 16 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 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. Does 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. International relations. 58103 Security, International. 58210 World politics. 58105 Political sociology. 57999 Economics. 58354 International Relations. 58103 International Security Studies. 69560 Political History. 67817 Political Sociology. 57999 Political Economy and Economic Systems. 70994 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031634253 Printed edition: 9783031634277 Printed edition: 9783031634284 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63426-0 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 63452 63452