The Virtual Weapon and International Order

✍ Scribed by Kello, Lucas

• Book ID: 100609451
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 257 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New Haven
• ISBN: 0300226292

✦ Synopsis

An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order

The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political interaction, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers non-state actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises. Despite significant experience with cyber phenomena, the conceptual apparatus to analyze, understand, and address their effects on international order remains primitive. Here, Lucas Kello adapts and applies international relations theory to create new ways of thinking about cyber strategy.

Kello draws on a broad range of case studies, including the Estonian crisis, the Olympic Games operation against Iran, and the cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Synthesizing qualitative data from government documents,...

✦ Subjects

Cyberspace -- Security measures