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International Journal of Int. J. Comput. Sci. Theor. App., 2015, vol. 3, no. 3., p. 60-73. Computer Science: Available online at Theory and Application ISSN: 2336-0984 Measuring Limits on the Ability of Colluding Countries to Partition the Internet 1, 2 3 Peter Mell , Richard Harang , Assane Gueye 1 National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive Stop 8930, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA 2 U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA 3 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2369 Av Williams Building, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, USA Email: peter.mell@, richard.e.harang.civ@, agueye@ Corresponding author. ABSTRACT We show that the strength of Internet-based network interconnectivity of countries is increasing over time. We then evaluate bounds on the extent to which a group of colluding countries can disrupt this connectivity. We evaluate the degree to which a group of countries can disconnect two other countries, isolate a set of countries from the Internet, or even break the Internet up into non-communicative clusters. To do this, we create an interconnectivity map of the worldwide Internet routing infrastructure at a country level of abstraction. We then examine how groups of countries may use their pieces of routing infrastructure to filter out the traffic of other countries (or to block entire routes). Overall, bounds analysis indicates that the ability of countries to perform such disruptions to connectivity has diminished significantly from 2008 to 2013. However, we show