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Digital trade: who sets the rules in the absence of a global agreement?
The Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization is the summit that periodically brings together the trade ministers of member countries and represents the institution’s highest decision-making body. The latest took place at the end of March in Yaoundé, in Cameroon, and marked something more than a negotiating impasse. Among the central dossiers was the so-called moratorium on customs ...
Internet Meets the Great Wall
One of the most illuminating studies in regard to the ideology and narrative of internet is the book by Evgenij Morozov entitled The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, published in 2011. Among the central themes of the study is the recognition of the argument claiming that internet has facilitated processes of democratization in authoritarian contexts.[1] One of the most emblematic ...