As the world’s largest economies, western liberal-democratic countries have a critical strategic interest in sustaining cyberspace as an open and secure commons of information constituted around freedom of speech and access to information. They also stand to lose the most should it spiral into a hotly contested zone of crime, espionage, and warfare. What should be done?
This article originally appeared in The 2011 G8 Deauville Summit: New World, New Ideas published by the G20 Research Group.