ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the link between US security identity and Internet governance by examining US national security strategy reviews, policy statements, and US policy-maker statements concerning Internet governance. In order to fully explain US identity towards Internet governance one must excavate the concretized discourse within the US government security policy-making apparatus to uncover how security is intertwined for the US with the issue of Internet governance. The chapter shows how US identity towards Internet governance directly shaped the current international regime for governance of the Internet. By examining US identity towards Internet governance, the chapter explains the question that controls the Internet can be re-conceptualized as a controversy over ontology. The controversy over Internet governance reflects the continuous struggle over the meaning of democracy, the structural place of governance, and the role of the state in the information age.
