Cyberpolitics in International Relations

by Choucri, Nazli

• ISBN13: 9780262017633
• ISBN10: 0262017636
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-09
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in today's world. Until recently, its political impact was thought to be a matter of low politics--background conditions and routine processes and decisions. Now, however, experts have begun to recognize its effect on high politics--national security, core institutions, and critical decision processes. In this book, Nazli Choucri investigates the implications of this new cyberpolitical reality for international relations theory, policy, and practice. The ubiquity, fluidity, and anonymity of cyberspace have already challenged such concepts as leverage and influence, national security and diplomacy, and borders and boundaries in the traditionally state-centric arena of international relations. Choucri grapples with fundamental questions of how we can take explicit account of cyberspace in the analysis of world politics and how we can integrate the traditional international system with its cyber venues. After establishing the theoretical and empirical terrain, Choucri examines modes of cyber conflict and cyber cooperation in international relations; the potential for the gradual convergence of cyberspace and sustainability, in both substantive and policy terms; and the emergent synergy of cyberspace and international efforts toward sustainable development. Choucri's discussion is theoretically driven and empirically grounded, drawing on recent data and analyzing the dynamics of cyberpolitics at individual, state, international, and global levels.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
New Challenges to International Relations: Theory and Policy	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Theory Matters in International Relations	p. 25
Cyberspace: New Domain of International Relations	p. 49
Cyber Content: Leveraging Knowledge and Networking	p. 71
Cyber Venues and Levels of Analysis	p. 89
The State System: National Profiles and Cyber Propensities	p. 91
The International System: Cyber Conflicts and Threats to Security	p. 125
The International System: Cyberpolitics of Cooperation and Collaboration	p. 155
The Global System: Pressures of Growth and Expansion	p. 175
Cyberspace and Sustainability: Convergence on the Global Agenda	p. 205
Conclusion: Lateral Realignment and the Future of Cyberpolitics	p. 221
Notes	p. 239
References	p. 263
Index	p. 293
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