Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae232" target="_blank" >10.1093/ia/iiae232</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics

Original language description

Processes of digital transformation alter global politics. This is an issue not only for specialists in cybersecurity, but for all scholars of international relations. This introduction to a special section outlines an agenda for cybersecurity research in international relations research and practice. We argue that cybersecurity is not only a specialized subfield of International Relations (IR), but also an intellectual space in which crucial questions concerning international politics, security and digital technology can be examined. Nevertheless, we identify three biases in current cybersecurity research—a focus toward the state, the military and power as domination—that limit the field and hamper broader engagement with IR and critical security scholarship. We argue that cybersecurity and digital technology are neither optional additions to the theory and practice of international relations nor issues that can neatly be isolated from other world affairs. The goal of the special section is hence twofold. First, to provide new directions and foundations for cybersecurity studies. Second, to explore the opportunities and challenges raised by cybersecurity and digital technological phenomena in conversation with IR and critical security studies. Taken together, the special section demonstrates the need to understand cybersecurity through international relations and to understand international relations through cybersecurity. Linda Monsees’ work was funded by the Research Council of Norway; project CYKNOW–325297. (Tobias Liebetrau’s work for this article has benefited from a grant by the Velux Foundation.)

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Affairs

ISSN

0020-5850

e-ISSN

1468-2346

Volume of the periodical

100

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

2303-2315

UT code for WoS article

001362622900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85208539317