Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation
This CSS Studies in Security and International Relations edited volume by Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Andreas Wenger examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.
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The CSS Studies in Security and International Relations series examines historical and contemporary aspects of security and conflict. The series provides a forum for new research based upon an expanded conception of security and will include monographs by the Center’s research staff and associated academic partners.
The first part of this edited volume 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. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber security, global governance, technology studies, and international relations.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction: Cyber security between socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation
By Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Andreas Wenger
Part I | Socio-technical transformations and cyber conflict trends
Chapter 2: Influence operations and other conflict trends
By Marie Baezner and Sean Cordey
Chapter 3: A threat to democracies?: An overview of theoretical approaches and empirical measurements for studying the effects of disinformation
By Wolf J. Schünemann
Chapter 4: Cultural violence and fragmentation on social media: Interventions and countermeasures by humans and social bots
By Jasmin Haunschild, Marc-André Kaufhold and Christian Reuter
Chapter 5: Artificial intelligence and the offense–defense balance in cyber security
By Matteo E. Bonfanti
Chapter 6: Quantum computing and classical politics: The ambiguity of advantage in signals intelligence
By Jon R. Lindsay
Chapter 7: Cyberspace in space: Fragmentation, vulnerability, and uncertainty
By Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello
Part II | Political responses in a complex environment
Chapter 8: Cyber uncertainties: Observations from cross-national war games
By Miguel Alberto Gomez and Christopher Whyte
Chapter 9: Uncertainty and the study of cyber deterrence: The case of Israel's limited reliance on cyber deterrence
By Amir Lupovici
Chapter 10: Cyber securities and cyber security politics: Understanding different logics of German cyber security policies
By Stefan Steiger
Chapter 11: Battling the bear: Ukraine's approach to national cyber and information security
By Aaron Brantly
Chapter 12: Uncertainty, fragmentation, and international obligations as shaping influences: Cyber security policy development in Albania
By Islam Jusufi
Chapter 13: Big tech's push for norms to tackle uncertainty in cyberspace
By Jacqueline Eggenschwiler
Chapter 14: Disrupting the second oldest profession: The impact of cyber on intelligence
By Danny Steed
Chapter 15: Understanding transnational cyber attribution: Moving from “whodunit” to who did it
By Brenden Kuerbis, Farzaneh Badiei, Karl Grindal and Milton Mueller
Chapter 16: Conclusion: The ambiguity of cyber security politics in the context of multidimensional uncertainty
By Andreas Wenger and Myriam Dunn Cavelty