Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation,Myriam Dunn Cavelty

-About this book

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.

-Contents

1 Introduction: Cyber security between socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation 1

MYRIAM DUNN CAVELTY AND ANDREAS WENGER

PART I :Socio-technical transformations and cyber conflict trends 15

2 Influence operations and other conflict trends 17

MARIE BAEZNER AND SEAN CORDEY

3 A threat to democracies?: An overview of theoretical approaches and empirical measurements for studying

the effects of disinformation 32

WOLF J. SCHÜNEMANN

4 Cultural violence and fragmentation on social media: Interventions and countermeasures by humans and social bots 48

JASMIN HAUNSCHILD, MARC-ANDRÉ KAUFHOLD, AND CHRISTIAN REUTER

5 Artificial intelligence and the offense–defense balance in cyber security 64

MATTEO E. BONFANTI

6 Quantum computing and classical politics: The ambiguity of advantage in signals intelligence 80

JON R. LINDSAY

7 Cyberspace in space: Fragmentation, vulnerability, and uncertainty 95

JOHAN ERIKSSON AND GIAMPIERO GIACOMELLO

PART II :Political responses in a complex environment 109

8 Cyber uncertainties: Observations from cross-national war games 111

MIGUEL ALBERTO GOMEZ AND CHRISTOPHER WHYTE

9 Uncertainty and the study of cyber deterrence: The case of Israel’s limited reliance on cyber deterrence 128

AMIR LUPOVICI

10 Cyber securities and cyber security politics: Understanding different logics of German cyber security policies 141

STEFAN STEIGER

11 Battling the bear: Ukraine’s approach to national cyber and information security 157

AARON BRANTLY

12 Uncertainty, fragmentation, and international obligations

as shaping influences: Cyber security policy development in Albania 172

ISLAM JUSUFI

13 Big tech’s push for norms to tackle uncertainty in cyberspace 186

JACQUELINE EGGENSCHWILER

14 Disrupting the second oldest profession: The impact of cyber on intelligence 205

15 Understanding transnational cyber attribution:

Moving from “whodunit” to who did it 220

BRENDEN KUERBIS, FARZANEH BADIEI, KARL GRINDAL, AND MILTON MUELLER

16 Conclusion: The ambiguity of cyber security politics in the

context of multidimensional uncertainty 239

ANDREAS WENGER AND MYRIAM DUNN CAVELTY

Index 26

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:16 février 2022

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Routledge

Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais

N.B de pages ‏ : ‎ 286 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0367626748

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0367626747

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 454 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.75 x 23.39 cm