Hyper-securitization, Security Practice and Techniﬁcation: Cyber-security Logics in Switzerland

Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Florian Egloff
Journal Title: Swiss Political Science Review
Publisher(s): Wiley Blackwell
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Place: Lausanne, Switzerland

This contribution by the CSS senior researchers Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Florian Egloff looks at how and by whom cyber-security is constructed in Swiss security politics by using three securitization logics: hyper-securitization, everyday security practices, and technification. The article suggests that all three logics are present in the political process, but that ‘technification’ is currently the dominant one. For democratic politics, technification is a big challenge because assigning an issue to the technical realm has a depoliticizing influence and makes contestation from those with less technical expertise very hard.

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