Cyberspace and instability

A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested. Vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept. Contested because they pr...

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Other Authors: Chesney, Robert M. (Editor), Shires, James (Editor), Smeets, Max W. E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2023, [2023]©2023
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested. Vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept. Contested because they propose measures that rely--often implicitly--on divergent understandings of cyber stability. This volume is a thorough investigation of instability within cyberspace and of cyberspace itself. Its purpose is to reconceptualize stability and instability for cyberspace, highlight their various dimensions and thereby identify relevant policy measures. This book critically examines both 'classic' notions associated with stability--for example, whether cyber operations can lead to unwanted escalation--as well as topics that have so far not been addressed in the existing cyber literature, such as the application of a decolonial lens to investigate Euro-American conceptualizations of stability in cyberspace
Physical Description:xii, 402 pages illustrations
ISBN:139951251X