Cyber international relations as an integrated system
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Vaishnav, Choucri, Clark (2013) Cyber International Relations as an Integrated System.pdf
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Final published version.
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Author(s)
Vaishnav, Chintan
Choucri, Nazli
Clark, David D
Date Issued
November 17, 2017
Publisher
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Citation
Vaishnav, C., Choucri, N., & Clark, D. D. (2013). Cyber international relations as an integrated system. Environment Systems & Decisions, 33(4), 561–576.
Version
Final published version.
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the hitherto separate domains of Cyberspace and Interna- tional Relations into an integrated socio-technical system that we jointly call the cyber International Relations (Cyber-IR) system and to identify and analyze its emergent properties utilizing the methods common to science and engineering systems adapted here for the social sciences. Our work is an exploration in both theory and methodol- ogy. This paper (a) identifies the actors and functions in the core systems, Cyberspace, and IR, (b) disambiguates sys- tem boundary, (c) creates a design structure matrix (DSM), a matrix of the interdependencies among functions of actors, (d) analyzes DSM qualitatively to show multiple interdependent and heterogeneous Cyber-IR properties, and (e) analyzes quantitatively the differential importance of core functions as well as the impact of actor attributes on influence in Cyber-IR. This work forms a baseline for further understanding of the nature of the heterogeneous influences of the various actors and the various outcomes that could result from it.
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