This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.
Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyber space in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state actors in an environment defined by uncertainties. Within this, it highlights four key debates that encapsulate the complexities and paradoxes of cyber security politics from a Western perspective - how much political influence states can achieve via cyber operations and what context factors condition the (limited) strategic utility of such operations; the role of emerging digital technologies and how the dynamics of the tech innovation process reinforce the fragmentation of the governance space; how states attempt to uphold stability in cyberspace and, more generally, in their strategic relations; and how the shared responsibility of state, economy, and society for cyber security continues to be re-negotiated in an increasingly trans-sectoral and transnational governance space.
This book will be of much interest to students of cyber security, global governance, technology studies, and international relations.
Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Andreas Wenger
Series: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Note on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: Cyber security between socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation
Part I Socio-technical transformations and cyber conflict trends
Chapter 2 Influence operations and other conflict trends
Chapter 3 A threat to democracies?: An overview of theoretical approaches and empirical measurements for studying the effects of disinformation
Chapter 4 Cultural violence and fragmentation on social media: Interventions and countermeasures by humans and social bots
Chapter 5 Artificial intelligence and the offense–defense balance in cyber security
Chapter 6 Quantum computing and classical politics: The ambiguity of advantage in signals intelligence
Chapter 7 Cyberspace in space: Fragmentation, vulnerability, and uncertainty
Part II Political responses in a complex environment
Chapter 8 Cyber uncertainties: Observations from cross-national war games
Chapter 9 Uncertainty and the study of cyber deterrence: The case of Israel’s limited reliance on cyber deterrence
Chapter 10 Cyber securities and cyber security politics: Understanding different logics of German cyber security policies
Chapter 11 Battling the bear: Ukraine’s approach to national cyber and information security
Chapter 12 Uncertainty, fragmentation, and international obligations as shaping influences: Cyber security policy development in Albania
Chapter 13 Big tech’s push for norms to tackle uncertainty in cyberspace
Chapter 14 Disrupting the second oldest profession: The impact of cyber on intelligence
Chapter 15 Understanding transnational cyber attribution: Moving from “whodunit” to who did it
Chapter 16 Conclusion: The ambiguity of cyber security politics in the context of multidimensional uncertainty
Index
