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International relations in the cyber age : the co-evolution dilemma / Nazli Choucri and David D. Clark.

By: Choucri, Nazli [author.].
Contributor(s): Clark, David D [author.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, [2019]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2019]Description: 1 PDF (432 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262349710.Subject(s): Internet -- Security measures | Computer networks -- Security measures | Computer networks -- Security measures | Internet and international relations | Internet -- Political aspects | Internet -- Security measures | Internet and international relations | Internet -- Political aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cyberspace and international relationsDDC classification: 327 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I -- Cyberspace and International Relations; 1 -- Context and Co-Evolution; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Tradition and Order; 1.3 Cyberspace-New Complexities; 1.4 The Co-Evolution Dilemma; 1.5 What Lies Ahead?; 2 -- Cyberspace: Layers and Interconnections; 2.1 A Four-Layer Model; 2.2 Identifying the Actors and Functions; 2.3 The Limits of the Layered Model; 2.4 Topology and Interconnections; 2.5 Cybersecurity; 2.6 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 3 -- International Relations: Levels of Analysis; 3.1 Levels of Analysis-Reframed; 3.2 The Causal Logic
3.3 The Individual Level: Basis for Aggregation3.4 The State Level: Sovereignty and Authority; 3.5 The International Level: Domain of Interaction; 3.6 The Global Level: Overarching System; 3.7 Cyberspace-Literature Review 2000-2010; 3.8 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; Appendix 3.1; 4 -- The Cyber-IR System: Integrating Cyberspace and International Relations; 4.1 Integrated System; 4.2 Illustrating the Joint System-Cases in Context; 4.3 Institutional Frame of the Cyber-IR System; 4.4 Complexity of Integration; 4.5 How the Pieces "Hang Together"; 4.6 Endnote: What Have We Learned?
5 -- Co-Evolution and Complexity in Twenty-First-Century International Relations5.1 Domains of Interaction; 5.2 The New Domain; 5.3 Individuals-New Power, New Influence; 5.4 States and Cyberspace-New Possibilities, New Challenges; 5.5 The International System-New Actors, New Decisions; 5.6 The Global System-Cyberspace and Sustainability; 5.7 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; Appendix 5.1; Appendix 5.2; II -- Complexities of Co-Evolution; 6 -- Control Point Analysis: Locating Power and Leverage; 6.1 Control Points; 6.2 Control Point Analysis of the Internet; 6.3 The Options for Control
6.4 Lessons and Observations6.5 Highlighting Who Controls What; 6.6 Other Control-Related Actors; 6.7 ISPs and IXs as Control Points-Roles and Functions; 6.8 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 7 -- The Power over Control Points: Cases in Context; 7.1 A Typical U.S -- ISP; 7.2 The U.S -- Government; 7.3 Content Owners; 7.4 Google; 7.5 The Government of China; 7.6 Control Point Analysis and Illegitimates; 7.7 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 8 -- Cybersecurity and International Complexities; 8.1 Perennial Predicaments; 8.2 Modes of Cyber Threat; 8.3 Cases in Cyber Conflict-Empirical Inferences
8.4 The "New Normal"8.5 International Institutional Responses; 8.6 Dilemmas of Data Provision; 8.7 Theory-Issues in Context; 8.8 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 9 -- Distributed Internet Governance: Private Authority and International Order; 9.1 Governance Matters; 9.2 Mapping Internet Governance; 9.3 Internet Protocol Ecosystem; 9.4 Number Resource Ecosystem; 9.5 Domain Name System (DNS); 9.6 System-Wide View of Internet Governance; 9.7 Matters of Trust; 9.8 Distributed Internet Governance-Theoretical Synthesis; 9.9 The State System and Major International Initiatives
Summary: A foundational analysis of the co-evolution of the internet and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations, firms, and states. In our increasingly digital world, data flows define the international landscape as much as the flow of materials and people. How is cyberspace shaping international relations, and how are international relations shaping cyberspace? In this book, Nazli Choucri and David D. Clark offer a foundational analysis of the co-evolution of cyberspace (with the internet as its core) and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations, and states. The authors examine the pervasiveness of power and politics in the digital realm, finding that the internet is evolving much faster than the tools for regulating it. This creates a "co-evolution dilemma"--a new reality in which digital interactions have enabled weaker actors to influence or threaten stronger actors, including the traditional state powers. Choucri and Clark develop a new method for addressing control in the internet age, "control point analysis," and apply it to a variety of situations, including major actors in the international and digital realms: the United States, China, and Google. In doing so they lay the groundwork for a new international relations theory that reflects the reality in which we live--one in which the international and digital realms are inextricably linked and evolving together.
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I -- Cyberspace and International Relations; 1 -- Context and Co-Evolution; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Tradition and Order; 1.3 Cyberspace-New Complexities; 1.4 The Co-Evolution Dilemma; 1.5 What Lies Ahead?; 2 -- Cyberspace: Layers and Interconnections; 2.1 A Four-Layer Model; 2.2 Identifying the Actors and Functions; 2.3 The Limits of the Layered Model; 2.4 Topology and Interconnections; 2.5 Cybersecurity; 2.6 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 3 -- International Relations: Levels of Analysis; 3.1 Levels of Analysis-Reframed; 3.2 The Causal Logic

3.3 The Individual Level: Basis for Aggregation3.4 The State Level: Sovereignty and Authority; 3.5 The International Level: Domain of Interaction; 3.6 The Global Level: Overarching System; 3.7 Cyberspace-Literature Review 2000-2010; 3.8 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; Appendix 3.1; 4 -- The Cyber-IR System: Integrating Cyberspace and International Relations; 4.1 Integrated System; 4.2 Illustrating the Joint System-Cases in Context; 4.3 Institutional Frame of the Cyber-IR System; 4.4 Complexity of Integration; 4.5 How the Pieces "Hang Together"; 4.6 Endnote: What Have We Learned?

5 -- Co-Evolution and Complexity in Twenty-First-Century International Relations5.1 Domains of Interaction; 5.2 The New Domain; 5.3 Individuals-New Power, New Influence; 5.4 States and Cyberspace-New Possibilities, New Challenges; 5.5 The International System-New Actors, New Decisions; 5.6 The Global System-Cyberspace and Sustainability; 5.7 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; Appendix 5.1; Appendix 5.2; II -- Complexities of Co-Evolution; 6 -- Control Point Analysis: Locating Power and Leverage; 6.1 Control Points; 6.2 Control Point Analysis of the Internet; 6.3 The Options for Control

6.4 Lessons and Observations6.5 Highlighting Who Controls What; 6.6 Other Control-Related Actors; 6.7 ISPs and IXs as Control Points-Roles and Functions; 6.8 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 7 -- The Power over Control Points: Cases in Context; 7.1 A Typical U.S -- ISP; 7.2 The U.S -- Government; 7.3 Content Owners; 7.4 Google; 7.5 The Government of China; 7.6 Control Point Analysis and Illegitimates; 7.7 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 8 -- Cybersecurity and International Complexities; 8.1 Perennial Predicaments; 8.2 Modes of Cyber Threat; 8.3 Cases in Cyber Conflict-Empirical Inferences

8.4 The "New Normal"8.5 International Institutional Responses; 8.6 Dilemmas of Data Provision; 8.7 Theory-Issues in Context; 8.8 Endnote: What Have We Learned?; 9 -- Distributed Internet Governance: Private Authority and International Order; 9.1 Governance Matters; 9.2 Mapping Internet Governance; 9.3 Internet Protocol Ecosystem; 9.4 Number Resource Ecosystem; 9.5 Domain Name System (DNS); 9.6 System-Wide View of Internet Governance; 9.7 Matters of Trust; 9.8 Distributed Internet Governance-Theoretical Synthesis; 9.9 The State System and Major International Initiatives

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A foundational analysis of the co-evolution of the internet and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations, firms, and states. In our increasingly digital world, data flows define the international landscape as much as the flow of materials and people. How is cyberspace shaping international relations, and how are international relations shaping cyberspace? In this book, Nazli Choucri and David D. Clark offer a foundational analysis of the co-evolution of cyberspace (with the internet as its core) and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations, and states. The authors examine the pervasiveness of power and politics in the digital realm, finding that the internet is evolving much faster than the tools for regulating it. This creates a "co-evolution dilemma"--a new reality in which digital interactions have enabled weaker actors to influence or threaten stronger actors, including the traditional state powers. Choucri and Clark develop a new method for addressing control in the internet age, "control point analysis," and apply it to a variety of situations, including major actors in the international and digital realms: the United States, China, and Google. In doing so they lay the groundwork for a new international relations theory that reflects the reality in which we live--one in which the international and digital realms are inextricably linked and evolving together.

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