Global internet governance: regimes and transnationality in the post-Snowden period

• Grant number: 20/01780-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2020
• End date: February 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Karina Lilia Pasquariello Mariano
• Grantee: Jaqueline Trevisan Pigatto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The global increase in internet use has brought benefits to users, but also problems that affect national States. The consequences are more visible at the national level, while its functioning is linked to global governance. This research asks if there is a fragmentation in the use of the internet, which supposed to be an universal tool, but which is strained by national borders and policies, since the governance of the layer of application use, data protection and content control, did not evolved globally in the same way as the governance of the technical layer for its functioning. We seek to analyze the dynamics between states and transnational companies from 2013, the year in which the United States' centrality in the Internet ecosystem is put in check due to the revelations of Edward Snowden. Such analyzes focus on the international institutions of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Internet Conference (WIC), from the perspective of historical institutionalism. After all, understand how global internet governance is organized in this period, from the assumption of different models of regional governance synthesized by the United States (non-liberal intervention), European Union (democratic intervention) and China (authoritarian interventionism), we have the hypothesis that there is a predominance of national logic for the use of the internet, but it is not absolute, due to the interests and influences of transnational companies and extraterritorial regulations. (AU)