The global internet is disintegrating: what comes next?
BBC Future, 2019
The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next? Russia is the latest country to try to find ways to police its online borders, sparking the end of the internet as we know it.
— May 2019, BBC Future
In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, ending 30 years of war across Europe and bringing about the sovereignty of states. The rights of states to control and defend their own territory became the core foundation of our global political order, and it has remained unchallenged since.
In 2010, a delegation of countries – including Syria and Russia – came to an obscure agency of the United Nations with a strange request: to inscribe those same sovereign borders onto the digital world [READ MORE]