A Sociological Approach To Cyberspace Conceptualization And Implications For International Security
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angličtina
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A Sociological Approach To Cyberspace Conceptualization And Implications For International Security
Original language description
The reason to write this chapter emerged due to a strong critical conviction about the perspective scholars have used to approach cyberspace in order to assess its implications in international security. A lot of papers have been published scaring the world community with new catastrophic cyber threats. The securitization discourse started over two decades ago with a paper by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt called Cyber war is coming! (Arquilla and Ronfeldt 1993). However, it has not changed significantly to the present day. White House employees publish books (Clarke and Knake 2010) with alarming cyber implications close to an Armageddon. Those conclusions are very questionable, as they are not based on the technical reality of cyberspace and its capability to be appropriately updated or shaped to meet security needs, but understand all the possibilities in and vulnerabilities of cyberspace as a security threat.2 The core of this securitization discourse usually takes the reality of
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C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2015
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Perspectives on Cybersecurity
ISBN
978-80-210-7870-3
Number of pages of the result
8
Pages from-to
70-77
Number of pages of the book
117
Publisher name
International Institute of Political Science of Masaryk University
Place of publication
Brno
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