Full Description
Fifteen years into the era of "cyber warfare," are we any closer to understanding the role a major cyberattack would play in international relations - or to preventing one? Uniquely spanning disciplines and enriched by the insights of a leading practitioner, Rethinking Cyber Warfare provides a fresh understanding of the role that digital disruption plays in contemporary international security.
Focusing on the critical phenomenon of major cyberattacks against wired societies, the book reconsiders central tenets that shaped global powers' policies and explains what forces in the international system might durably restrain their use. Arming the reader with the key technological and historical context to make sense of cyberattacks, it explores how deterrence, international law, and normative taboos operate today to shape whether and how states think about causing this kind of disruption - and how soon those forces might combine to rethink those decisions entirely.
The result is a comprehensive look at one of the most pressing issues in international security that also illuminates a new pathway for managing one of its greatest sources of instability.
Contents
Introduction
Part I Cyberattacks and Restraint
Chapter 1: Defining and Studying Cyberattacks
Chapter 2: Defining and Studying Restraint
Part II Deterrence
Chapter 3: Evaluating Deterrence
Chapter 4: Constructing Deterrence
Part III International Law and the Use of Force
Chapter 5: Limiting the Use of Force
Chapter 6: Constructing Self-Defense
Part IV Humanitarian Protections
Chapter 7: Humanitarian Protections
Chapter 8: Constructing a Prohibition
Conclusion
