Cyber Security Politics by Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Andreas Wenger - 9780367626747

Taylor & Francis

Cyber Security PoliticsSocio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation\nAuthor(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Andreas Wenger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367626747, 978-0367626747\nSynopsis\nThis book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.\n\nStructured 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 settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state actors in an environment defined by uncertainties. Within this, it highlights four key debates that encapsulate the complexities and paradoxes of cyber security politics from a Western perspective how much political influence states can achieve v.