Comments on: David Bollier on How NATO Misconstrues the Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/david-bollier-on-how-nato-misconstrues-the-commons/2010/12/28 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: david ronfeldt https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/david-bollier-on-how-nato-misconstrues-the-commons/2010/12/28/comment-page-1#comment-459102 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:14:59 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=12547#comment-459102 this post raises important concerns that have been developing for several years. if i may say so, they relate back to this blog’s post on 26 aug 2009 about cyberspace being viewed as a strategic if not military commons. the nato conference surely draws on an influential study back then by two authors who soon became pentagon officials — Michèle Flournoy and Shawn Brimley — and who wrote (2008, p. 136) that “America must take a leadership role to ensure that access to the global commons remains a public good.”

as bollier indicates, state and market actors are going to have difficulty recognizing that civil-society commoners exist as significant players who should indeed play major roles in shaping and protecting the global commons. this could get evermore interesting as the 21st c. evolves.

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