Full Description
A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested: vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept; contested because they propose measures that rely - often implicitly - on divergent understandings of cyber stability.
This is a thorough investigation of instability within cyberspace and of cyberspace itself. Its purpose is to reconceptualise stability and instability for cyberspace, highlight their various dimensions and thereby identify relevant policy measures.
It critically examines both 'classic' notions associated with stability - for example, whether cyber operations can lead to unwanted escalation - as well as topics that have so far not been addressed in the existing cyber literature, such as the application of a decolonial lens to investigate Euro-American conceptualisations of stability in cyberspace.
Contents
Introduction Setting the Stage: Rethinking (In)stability In And Of CyberspaceRobert Chesney, James Shires, Max Smeets Part I: EscalationChapter 1 The Escalation Inversion and Other Oddities of Situational Cyber StabilityJason Healey and Robert JervisChapter 2 Preparing the Cyber Battlefield: Assessing a Novel Escalation Risk in a Sino-American CrisisBen Buchanan and Fiona CunninghamChapter 3 Concept Misalignment and Cyberspace Instability: Lessons from Cyber-Enabled DisinformationJaclyn A. Kerr Part II: InstitutionsChapter 4 System, Alliance, Domain: A Three-Frame Analysis of NATO's Contribution to Cyber StabilityJoe Burton and Tim StevensChapter 5 From Reaction to Action: Adopting a Competitive Posture in Cyber DiplomacyEmily O. GoldmanChapter 6 (De)Stabilizing Cyber Warriors: The Emergence of Military Cyber Expertise, 1967-2018Rebecca Slayton Part III: InfrastructuresChapter 7 Cyber Entanglement and the Stability of the Contemporary Rules-Based Global OrderMark A. RaymondChapter 8 The Negative Externalities of Cyberspace Instability for Global Civil SocietySiena Anstis, Sophie Barnett, Sharly Chan, Niamh Leonard, and Ron DeibertPart IV: Subaltern and decolonial perspectivesChapter 9 Infrastructure, Law, and Cyber Instability: An African Case StudyMailyn FidlerChapter 10 Confronting Coloniality in Cyberspace Debates: Making the Concept of (In)Stability UsefulDensua Mumford
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