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The Digital Environment and Small States in Europe: Challenges, Threats, and Opportunities book cover

1st Edition

The Digital Environment and Small States in Europe Challenges, Threats, and Opportunities

Edited By Viktorija Car, Marta Zorko Copyright 2026
254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Digital Environment and Small States in Europe delves into how the digital revolution intersects with global security dynamics and reshapes the geopolitical landscape. It sheds light on the geopolitical complexities inherent in the border regions of the European continent and proposes frameworks to better understand and engage with small state dynamics in international affairs. At the... Read more

1.      INTRODUCTION (Marta Zorko & Viktorija Car)

PART ONE: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS

2.      Cybersecurity: Basic Concepts, Contemporary Security Challenges and Digital Technology (Ružica Jakešević & Robert Mikac)

3.      Digital Information and Communication Environment: Potentials for Country Promotion, Digital Propaganda or Metaverse Threats (Viktorija Car, Hrvoje Jakopović & Christopher Nehring)

4.      Small States and Digitalisation: Building a Theoretical Framework for Digital Diplomacy (Đana Luša & Boško Picula)

PART TWO: SMALL STATES AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT CHALLENGES

5.      European Security Space(s): Defining and Protecting Cyberspace in European Small States (Marta Zorko & Ivana Cesarec)

6.      The Smaller the State the Bigger the Challenge: Estonia as the Digital State (Jaanika Puusalu)

7.      Surveillance, De-Democratization and the Digital States of Exception: Cyprus, a Small State Surveillance-Post (Michaelangelo Anastasiou & Nicos Trimikliniotis)

8.      Hyperlocal Media and the Nation State: Malta’s Complicated Media Ecosystem (Alex Grech & Martin G. Debattista)

9.      Icelandic Environmental Security Communication Strategies (Hrvoje Jakopović, Lidija Kos-Stanišić & Dino Đula)

10.   Hybrid Threats as Challenges for the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure in Cyberspace: A Comparative Analysis of Croatia and Estonia (Robert Mikac, Ivana Cesarec & Vladimir Sazonov)

Biography

Viktorija Car, PhD, is Full Professor and Head of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Split. The focus of her scientific research includes digital media and society, digital activism, visual culture and visual media, media narratives, media and gender, and minority studies.

Marta Zorko, PhD, is Full Professor at Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, and Head of the undergraduate program Military Leadership and Management. Her scientific interest is oriented towards political geography, geopolitics, and border studies with a strong emphasis on concepts of territoriality and space/place creation.

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