Milton Mueller is an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication. The author of widely cited books and journal articles on AI governance, Internet governance, cybersecurity and communications policy, his work informs not only public policy but also history of technology studies, law, economics, communications, and international studies. His books Declaring Independence in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2025) Will the Internet Fragment? (Polity, 2017), Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press, 2010) and Ruling the Root:(MIT Press, 2002) are acclaimed scholarly accounts of the global governance regime emerging around digital technologies. Mueller’s research employs the theoretical tools of institutional economics, and historical political economy, as well as historical, qualitative and quantitative methods.
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