Aligning Security Needs for Order in Cyberspace

Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Book Title: The Rise and Decline of the Post-Cold War International Order
Pages: 104-119
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2018

This chapter focuses on issues of order in the field of cyber-security. A set of diverse threat forms have shaped this policy issue, ranging from hacktivism, to cyber-crime, cyber-espionage and cyber-war. These different threat forms are represented and treated in distinct ways in the political process since multiple actors employ differing political, private, societal, and corporate notions of security. Specifying whose security and what security is at stake and who should responsible for it thus becomes an intricate part of designing cyber-security policies—and lies at the very heart of the questions of order in cyberspace.

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