Cyberspace and International Relations Theory, Prospects and Challenges

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 depende...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kremer, Jan-Frederik (Editor), Müller, Benedikt (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Cyberspace and IR - Theory.-Power Technology and Powerful Technologies - Global Governmentality and Security in the Cyberspace
  • Cyber War and Strategic Thought - Do the Classic Theorists Still Matter? - SAM - A Framework to Understanding Emerging Challenges to States in an Interconnected World
  • In Search of Cyber Stability - International Relations, Mutually Assured Destruction and the Age of Cyber Warfare
  • Offense-Defense Balance in Cyber Warfare
  • The Utility of Timeless Thoughts - Hannah Arendt's Conceptions of Power and Violence in the Age of Cyberization
  • Part II:  The Cyberspace and IR - Prospects  and Challenges
  • Clarifying the International Debate on Stuxnet - Arguments for Stuxnet as an Act of War
  • A New Way of Conducting War - Cyberwar, Is That Real? - Peacekeeping 4.0 - Harnessing Potential of Big Data, Social Media, and Cyber Technologies.- US Leadership in Cyberspace - Transnational Cyber Security and Global Governance
  • Hierarchies in Networks - Emerging Hybrids of Networks and Hierarchies for Producing Internet Security
  • How the 2010 Attack on Google Changed the US Government's Threat Perception of Economic Cyber Espionage
  • Cooperative International Approaches to Network Security - Understanding and Assessing OECD and ITU Efforts to Promote Shared Cybersecurity
  • Phreak the Speak - The Flawed Communications within Cyber Intelligentsia
  • Reflections on Virtual to Real - Modern Technique, International Security Studies and Cyber Security Environment
  • Index