1st Edition

Cyber Security Politics Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation

Edited By Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Andreas Wenger Copyright 2022
286 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation. Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyber space in conflictual... Read more

1. Introduction: Cyber security between socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation

Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Andreas Wenger

Part I: Socio-technical transformations and cyber conflict trends

2. Influence operations and other conflict trends

Marie Baezner and Sean Cordey

3. A threat to democracies? An overview of theoretical approaches and empirical measurements for studying the effects of disinformation

Wolf J. Schünemann

4. Cultural violence and fragmentation on social media: Interventions and countermeasures by humans and social bots

Jasmin Haunschild, Marc-André Kaufhold and Christian Reuter

5. Artificial intelligence and the offencedefense balance in cyber security

Matteo E. Bonfanti

6. Quantum computing and classical politics: The ambiguity of advantage in signals intelligence

Jon R. Lindsay

7. Cyberspace in space: Fragmentation, vulnerability, and uncertainty

Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello

Part II: Political responses in a complex environment

8. Cyber uncertainties: Observations from cross-national war games

Miguel Alberto Gomez and Christopher Whyte

9. Uncertainty and the study of cyber deterrence: The case of Israel’s limited reliance on cyber deterrence

Amir Lupovici

10. Cyber securities and cyber security politics: Understanding different logics of German cyber security policies

Stefan Steiger

11. Battling the bear: Ukraine’s approach to national cyber and information security

Aaron Brantly

12. Uncertainty, fragmentation, and international obligations as shaping influences: Cyber security policy development in Albania

Islam Jusufi

13. Big tech’s push for norms to tackle uncertainty in cyberspace

Jacqueline Eggenschwiler

14. Disrupting the second oldest profession: The impact of cyber on intelligence

Danny Steed

15. Understanding transnational cyber attribution: Moving from ‘whodunit’ to who did it

Brenden Kuerbis, Farzaneh Badiei, Karl Grindal and Milton Mueller

16. Conclusion: The ambiguity of cyber security politics in the context of multidimentional uncertainty

Andreas Wenger and Myriam Dunn Cavelty

Biography

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is deputy head of research and teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Andreas Wenger is professor of international and Swiss security policy at ETH Zurich and director of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), Switzerland.