Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance: Volume 21 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Milton Mueller, Farzaneh Badiei

Digital trade in Latin America: mapping issues and approaches

Carolina Aguerre

In Latin America, digital trade is still a marginal issue in the internet policy and governance debate, as well as in the trade regime. However, there are signs that this is…

Trade regimes as a tool for cyber policy

Karl Grindal

This research develops a framework for assessing international trade regimes which could be used to address global cybersecurity challenges based on the corresponding costs of…

Externalizing Europe: the global effects of European data protection

Annegret Bendiek, Magnus Römer

This paper aims to explain how the EU projects its own data protection regime to third states and the US in particular. Digital services have become a central element in the…

Data flows and national security: a conceptual framework to assess restrictions on data flows under GATS security exception

Martina Francesca Ferracane

The paper aims to explore the national security implications of a potential for a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute on data flow restrictions. It proposes a basic conceptual…

Data flows and the digital economy: information as a mobile factor of production

Milton Mueller, Karl Grindal

This paper aims to analyze the direction and balance of transnational information flows and look at how nonpriced digital information exchanges related to international trade in…