Название: Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace
Автор: Erica D. Lonergan, Shawn W. Lonergan
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 273
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 16.4 MB
To what extent do cyberspace operations increase the risks of escalation between nation-state rivals? Scholars and practitioners have been concerned about cyber escalation for decades, but the question remains hotly debated. The issue is increasingly important for international politics as more states develop and employ offensive cyber capabilities, and as the international system is increasingly characterized by emergent multipolarity. In Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace, Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan tackle this question head-on, presenting a comprehensive theory that explains the conditions under which cyber operations may lead to escalation. Whether and how emerging technologies might contribute to international stability is a pervasive question for scholars and policymakers. Academic efforts to understand and make predictions about escalation dynamics crystallized during the Cold War and became particularly acute during the Cuban Missile Crisis when the threat of nuclear annihilation was suddenly made quite real. Richard Smoke notes that the concept of escalation “did not appear in dictionaries, in military or scholarly literature, or in the public statements of government officials, before about 1960.”
