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In their new book Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford University Press, 2006), AEI visiting scholar and Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu challenge the idea that the Internet is-and should remain-a free, borderless, and ungovernable medium. The authors raise and answer questions that are fundamental to modern debates about Internet governance: Are we on the verge of a new Cold War among nations fighting over how the Internet should be regulated? What does national control over the Internet imply for contemporary debates about network neutrality and government access to Internet search records? How are search engines like Google and Yahoo! regularly censoring Internet searches-not just in China, but in the United States and Europe? How did aggressive assertions of national copyright law bring down music file-sharing services like Kazaa?

This AEI event will feature a presentation by Goldsmith and Wu followed by a discussion with Alan Davidson, Washington policy counsel and head of U.S. public policy for Google, the State Department's ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for international communications and information policy; and Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby.