Cyberspace and instability / edited by Robert Chesney, James Shires, and Max Smeets.
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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 402 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references at chapter ends, bibliographic references (pages [300]-391), and index. |
| ISBN: | 139951251X 9781399512510 |