1st Edition

International Relations and Security in the Digital Age

Edited By Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello Copyright 2007
250 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature. International Relations and Security in the Digital Age covers a range of topics, including: critical infrastructure protection, privacy issues,... Read more

Introduction  1. Closing the Gap Between International Relations Theory and Studies of Digital-Age Security, Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello   Part I: The Politics of Threats  2. The Virtual Sanctuary of Al-Qaeda and Terrorism in an Age of Globalization, Magnus Ranstorp  3. From ‘Cyberterrorism’ to ‘Cyberwar’, Back and Forth: How the United States Securitized Cyberspace, Ralf Bendrath, Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello   Part II: The Politics of Protection   4. Securing the Information Age: The Challenges of Complexity for Critical Infrastructure Protection and IR Theory, Myriam A. Dunn   5. Assessing Theories of Information Technology and Security for the Middle East, Hamoud Salhi  6. Public-Private Cooperation and Information Assurance: A Liberal Institutionalist Approach, Lorenzo Valeri  7. International Policy Dynamics and the Regulation of Dataflows: Bypassing Domestic Restrictions, Ian Hosein and Johan Eriksson  Conclusion  8. Digital-Age Security in Theory and Practice, Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello  Bibliography

Biography

Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello