Cybersecurity

Connectivity and Exploitation in the Digital Age

Clare Stevens and Andreas Haggman • May 19 2022 • Online resources

Through participation in logistics and communications, digital or otherwise, each person has the potential to affect international relations – and the rules governing this space are still in the making.

Interview – Mark Manantan

E-International Relations • Feb 19 2022 • Features

Mark Manantan talks about the links between the disciplines of international relations and media communication, cybersecurity cooperation and cyber diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific.

Provoking to Avoid War: North Korea’s Hybrid Security Strategies

Sico van der Meer • May 22 2021 • Articles

An important feature of North Korea’s hybrid strategy is that it is continuously adapting to ever-changing circumstances, and as such it has not become outdated.

Interview – Edythe E. Weeks

E-International Relations • Dec 15 2020 • Features

Edythe Weeks discusses development and competition in outer space and the polar regions, cybersecurity, and misconceptions around the Cold War space race.

The Inevitable Battleground for Competing Powers: Cyberwarfare

Mohammed Seid Ahmed and Makam Khan Daim • Oct 5 2020 • Articles

The competition between global powers to make cyberspace the next battleground will have a serious consequence for the rest of the world if not addressed collectively.

Interview – Lev Topor

E-International Relations • Sep 28 2020 • Features

Lev Topor talks about his work on cyberspace and racism, cybersecurity and the pandemic, and the key instigators of cyber interventions.

Interview – H. Akin Ünver

E-International Relations • May 21 2020 • Features

Akin Ünver discusses computational social science (CSS) and IR, his research using CSS on the Syrian Civil War, and the use of the Internet by authoritarian leaders.

How Cyberspace Changes International Conflict

P.J. Blount • Dec 8 2019 • Articles

The international system is ill equipped to create regulatory mechanisms that inhibit and control state action in Cyberspace, much less the myriad other actors that can wield such violence.

Unbordered Rights: The Geography of Cyberspace

P.J. Blount • Dec 5 2019 • Articles

World-scale political geography is shifting as new actors become mediums for power within the system, revealing complexity by adding Cyberspace onto the political geography of international space. 

Cyberspace and the Struggle to Maintain and Manage It

P.J. Blount • Dec 3 2019 • Articles

If the Internet is to be an effective tool of liberty, freedom and justice then Cyberspace must be understood not just within domestic governance frameworks, but also within the international governance system.

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