Structural Causes and Cyber Effects: A Response to Our Critics

Abstract

Evidence of the emerging cyber regime is mounting every day. Increasingly states are bringing notoriously secretive cyber issues into the realm of public debate, particularly in response to events that threaten the availability, security, and surety of cyberspace. This is not to say sovereign states have taken to playing international politics with all of their cards on the table. States will continue to protect sensitive sources and methods as they always have. However, such evidence does lend credence to the idea that even powerful states realize cooperation in cyberspace is part of the domain itself. Furthermore, nonstate actors' attempts to influence state policy, atop the relatively anonymous platforms cyberspace offers, provide even more reason for states to cooperate in their attempts to shape and influence the information environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA624566

Entities

People

  • Billy E. Pope
  • James W. Forsyth Jr.

Organizations

  • Air University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Cooperation
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • International Relations
  • Internet
  • Manufacturing
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Standards
  • United States

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace