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Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: Toward Cyber Peace by Scott Shackelford

The book cover of Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: Toward Cyber Peace by Scott Shackelford Published by the Cambridge University Press in 2020, this book makes an original contribution by comparing and contrasting some of the principal issues facing the frontiers.

Many pressing environmental and security threats now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers. From climate change and cyber-attacks to the associated challenges of space weaponization and orbital debris mitigation, solutions to all of these issues have at their root some form of regulation over the ‘global commons.’ Yet governance over these spaces is now transitioning away from multilateral treaties to regional and bilateral accords.

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Carugati, Federica. 2019. Creating a Constitution: Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Herzberg, Roberta G., Peter J. Boettke, and Paul Dragos Aligica, eds. 2019. Ostrom’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Public Policy of Elinor C. Ostrom. Washington, DC: Mercatus Center
Aligica, Paul Dragos, Peter J. Boettke, Vlad Tarko. 2019. Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective:Political Economy Foundations. New York: Oxford University Press.
Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons. 2019. London: Routledge.
Shackelford, Scott, and Amanda N. Craig Deckard. 2019. The Internet of Everything: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press.
Nagendra, Harini, and Seema Mundoli. 2019. Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities. Penguin India.
Thiel, Andreas, William A. Blomquist, and Dustin E. Garrick, eds. 2019. Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Werbach, Kevin. 2018. The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Alston, Eric, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. 2018. Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cole, Daniel H., and Michael D. McGinnis. 2018. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Volume 4, Policy Applications and Extensions. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Cole, Daniel H., and Michael D. McGinnis, eds. 2017. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Volume 3, A Framework for Policy Analysis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Panjek, Aleksander, Jesper Larsson, and Luca Mocarelli, eds. 2017. Integrated Peasant Economy in a Comparative Perspective: Alps, Scandinavia and Beyond. Koper: University of Primorska Press.
Robinson, Jennifer, and James Farmer. 2017. Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Alston, Lee J., Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira. 2016. Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Anderies, John M., and Marco A. Janssen. 2016. Sustaining the Commons. 2nd ed. Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment. [1st ed. published in 2013] Free e-book download at: https://sustainingthecommons.asu.edu/.
Cole, Daniel H. 2016. Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland. Republished under Creative Commons License; originally published in 1998 by Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press.
Craiutu, Aurelian. 2016. Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Nagendra, Harini. 2016. Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Sabetti, Filippo, and Dario Castiglione, eds. 2016. Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies: The Bloomington School and Beyond. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Cole, Daniel H., and Michael D. McGinnis, eds. 2015. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Volume 2, Resource Governance. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Cole, Daniel H., and Michael D. McGinnis, eds. 2015. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Volume 1, Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Inoue, Makoto, and Ganesh P. Shivakoti. 2015. Multi-Level Forest Governance in Asia. New York: Sage.
Aligica, Paul Dragos. 2014. Institutional Diversity and Political Economy: The Ostroms and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press.
Frischmann, Brett, Michael Madison, and Katherine Strandburg, eds. 2014. Governing Knowledge Commons. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sabetti, Filippo, and Paul Dragos Aligica, eds. 2014. Choice, Rules and Collective Action: The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance. Colchester, UK: University of Essex, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Press.
van Zeben, Josephine. 2014. The Allocation of Regulatory Competence in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wall, Derek. 2014. The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, Contestation and Craft. New York: Routledge.
Brondizio, Eduardo, and Emilio Moran, eds. 2013. Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer.
Root, Hilton L. 2013. Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sabetti, Filippo. 2013 (paperback version). Civilization and Self-Government: The Political Thought of Carlo Cattaneo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Originally published in 2010.
Cole, Daniel H., and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2012. Property in Land and Other Resources. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Craiutu, Aurelian. 2012. A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Myint, Tun. 2012. Governing International Rivers: Polycentric Politics in the Mekong and the Rhine. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Ostrom, Elinor, with contributions by Christina Chang, Mark Pennington, and Vlad Tarko. 2012. The Future of the Commons: Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation. London: The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). [2012 Hayek Memorial Lecture]
Ostrom, Vincent. 2012. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice, volume 2. Edited by Barbara Allen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Tucker, Catherine, ed. 2012. Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press.
Ostrom, Elinor. 2011. Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen: Vom Gesellschaftlichen wert der Gemeingüter. Edited and translated by Silke Helfrich. Munich: Oekom Verlag.
Ostrom, Elinor, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, and Ganesh Shivakoti. 2011. Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an Innovative Intervention in Nepal. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Ostrom, Vincent. 2011. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice, volume 1. Edited by Barbara Allen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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