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The Gates Are Down? The Gates Are Down?
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Definitional Issues Definitional Issues
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Nature of the Cyber Threat Nature of the Cyber Threat
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The Nature of Cyber Conflict The Nature of Cyber Conflict
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Deterrence and Restraint in Cyberspace Deterrence and Restraint in Cyberspace
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The Nature of Cyber Power and Force The Nature of Cyber Power and Force
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Cyber Institutions and Governance Cyber Institutions and Governance
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The Legalist/Moralist Debate The Legalist/Moralist Debate
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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20 International Relations Theory and Cyber Security: Threats, Conflicts, and Ethics in an Emergent Domain
Get accessBrandon Valeriano is the Donald Bren Chair of Armed Politics at the Marine Corps University. He also serves as a senior fellow in cyber security for the Niskanen Center. His three most recent coauthored books are Cyber War versus Cyber Realities, Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy, and Cyber Strategy. His ongoing research explores creating comprehensive cyber conflict data, external threats and video games, biological and psychological examinations of the cyber threat, and repression in cyberspace. He received a PhD from Vanderbilt University.
Ryan C. Maness is an assistant professor of Cyber Conflict and Security in the Defense Analysis Department of the Naval Postgraduate School. His current research explores cyber strategy and coercive effects and how the tactic fits within overall military pg xvistrategies for various countries. His research is based on the collection of cyber events through quantitative methods and is currently constructing a cyber incidents dataset that will not only encompass state actors, but non-state actors as well. He is coauthor of the forthcoming Cyber Strategy: The Changing Character of Cyber Power and Coercion (Oxford University Press), Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Energy, Cyber and Maritime Policy as New Sources of Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and Cyber War versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System (Oxford University Press, 2015). He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013.
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Published:05 April 2018
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Abstract
Cyber security has undoubtedly become one of the most the significant and proliferating fields of International Relations scholarship. Polls and the news media’s reaction to the issue suggest that cyber threats are one of the critical threats in the international agenda, yet scholars have struggled to seriously tackle the implications of this framework and potential theoretical perspectives that would guide inquiry. In this chapter we trace the development of the field, its trends, and the major theoretical ideas suggested by scholars. Our effort will focus on what we know about cyber security and on pressing theoretical questions. The study concludes with an evaluation of the state of norms and ethics in the field given conceptualizations of justice, morality, and norms. Clearly cyber security is an important aspect of international relations; but is the field driving its own ideas, or does it replicate ideas from other security domains?
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