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Randall Henning and To meet its full potential, users need to trust Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management Andrew Walter that the Internet works reliably and efficiently in a Time of Change focuses on the role of Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising when providing them with the information they mediation and peacekeeping in managing Powers addresses the challenge that the rising are seeking, while also being secure, private violence and political crises, looking at new ideas powers pose for global governance, substantively and safe. Edward Snowden’s revelations that and institutions emerging in the African space, as and institutionally, in the domain of financial the United States National Security Agency and well as at the structural and institutional obstacles and macroeconomic cooperation. It examines other government agencies are spying on Internet to developing a truly robust conflict management the issues before the G20 that are of particular users, the proliferation of cybercrime, the growing capability in Africa. In the end, the stakes are concern to these newly influential countries commodification of user data and regulatory too high in terms of human lives and regional and how international financial institutions and changes — which threaten to fragment the system stability to allow these obstacles to paralyze financial standard-setting bodies have responded. — are all rapidly eroding the confidence users have peace processes. These authors recognize the This book presents rising power perspectives on in the Internet ecosystem. 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