Cyberspace and International Relations: Theory, Prospects and Challenges

✍ Scribed by Roxana Radu (auth.), Jan-Frederik Kremer, Benedikt Müller (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cyberspace is everywhere in today’s world and has significant implications not only for global economic activity, but also for international politics and transnational social relations. This compilation addresses for the first time the “cyberization” of international relations - the growing dependence of actors in IR on the infrastructure and instruments of the internet, and the penetration of cyberspace into all fields of their activities. The volume approaches this topical issue in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary fashion, bringing together scholars from disciplines such as IR, security studies, ICT studies and philosophy as well as experts from everyday cyber-practice.

In the first part, concepts and theories are presented to shed light on the relationship between cyberspace and international relations, discussing implications for the discipline and presenting fresh and innovative theoretical approaches.

Contributions in the second part focus on specific empirical fields of activity (security, economy, diplomacy, cultural activity, transnational communication, critical infrastructure, cyber espionage, social media, and more) and address emerging challenges and prospects for international politics and relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Power Technology and Powerful Technologies: Global Governmentality and Security in the Cyberspace....Pages 3-20
Cyber War and Strategic Thought: Do the Classic Theorists Still Matter?....Pages 21-40
SAM: A Framework to Understand Emerging Challenges to States in an Interconnected World....Pages 41-58
In Search of Cyber Stability: International Relations, Mutually Assured Destruction and the Age of Cyber Warfare....Pages 59-76
Offense–Defense Balance in Cyber Warfare....Pages 77-93
The Utility of Timeless Thoughts: Hannah Arendt’s Conceptions of Power and Violence in the Age of Cyberization....Pages 95-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Clarifying the International Debate on Stuxnet: Arguments for Stuxnet as an Act of War....Pages 117-124
A New Way of Conducting War: Cyberwar, Is That Real?....Pages 125-139
Peacekeeping 4.0: Harnessing the Potential of Big Data, Social Media, and Cyber Technologies....Pages 141-160
US Leadership in Cyberspace: Transnational Cyber Security and Global Governance....Pages 161-180
Hierarchies in Networks: Emerging Hybrids of Networks and Hierarchies for Producing Internet Security....Pages 181-202
How the 2010 Attack on Google Changed the US Government’s Threat Perception of Economic Cyber Espionage....Pages 203-230
Cooperative International Approaches to Network Security: Understanding and Assessing OECD and ITU Efforts to Promote Shared Cybersecurity....Pages 231-252
Phreak the Speak: The Flawed Communications within Cyber Intelligentsia....Pages 253-267
Reflections on Virtual to Real: Modern Technique, International Security Studies and Cyber Security Environment....Pages 269-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-284

✦ Subjects

International Relations; Computers and Society; Systems and Data Security; Communication Studies