This article assumes that the multi-stakeholder concept is a fiction that provides meaning to a disorderly world. Calling multi-stakeholderism a fiction does not mean to say that the term creates a non-existent reality but that it provides coherence to an often messy, incoherent and ambiguous...

Following recent theoretical contributions, this article suggests a new approach to finding the governance in Internet governance. Studies on Internet governance rely on contradictory notions of governance. The common understanding of governance as some form of deliberate steering or regulation...

Over the last 20 years, multi-stakeholder processes have developed into a kind of new blueprint of transnational coordination. Somewhat antithetic to its rise as a role model for legitimate governance arrangements, however, empirical case studies have found little evidence in support of this...

Although it has not yet attracted much public attention outside of the technical community, the Internet is running out of addresses. According to current calculations, the pool of unallocated IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses could dry out as soon as in spring 2012. Over the last...

Cybercrime and its potential ramifications exemplify 'one of those things that nobody wants' (Popper 1963). From today's perspective it would have been easy to foresee and at least partly prevent the mischief of cybercrime. One therefore wonders what early developers and users of the Internet...

This article sets out to compare processes of formal institution building in two transnational policy areas, the regulation of the Internet infrastructure and the regulation of corporate financial reporting. Both cases are concerned with regulatory arrangements beyond the nation state, in which...