The Better Angels of our Digital Nature? Offensive Cyber Capabilities and State Violence

Author(s): Florian Egloff, James Shires
Journal Title: European Journal of International Security
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2021

Transformations in state violence are intimately associated with technological capacity. Like previous era-defining technologies, global digital networks have changed state violence. Offensive cyber capabilities (OCCs) appear to constitute a major technological development that offers the potential for reducing state violence. In this European Journal of International Security article, CSS' Florian Egloff and James Shires discuss if OCCs really are the better angels of our digital nature.

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