Influence Operations and Other Conflict Trends

Author(s): Marie Baezner, Sean Cordey
Book Title: Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation
Pages: 17-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2022

With the rise of cyber capabilities over the last few decades, many scholars have warned about the dangers of cyber wars. However, in actuality it has been shown that the majority of cyber operations take place below the threshold of armed conflicts, in an area called the "Gray Zone". In this chapter Marie Baezner and CSS' Sean Cordey focus on the socio-technological logics behind the emergence of gray zone conflicts and the use of cyber operations within them.

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