The role of cyberspace in international relations: A view of the literature
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Reardon, Choucri (2012) The role of cyberspace in international relations.pdf
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Reardon, Robert
Choucri, Nazli
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April 1, 2012
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© International Studies Association
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Reardon, R., & Choucri, N. (2012). The role of cyberspace in international relations: A view of the literature. Proceedings of the 2012 ISA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
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Abstract
This paper reviews the literature on cyber international relations of the previous decade. The review covers all journal articles on the role of cyberspace and information technology that appeared in 26 major policy, scholarly IR, and political science journals between the years 2001- 2010. The search yielded 49 articles, mostly from policy journals. The articles are sorted into five distinct issue areas: global civil society, governance, economic development, the effects on authoritarian regimes, and security. The review identifies, and discusses the significance of three unifying themes throughout all of the articles: efforts to define the relevant subject of analysis; cyberspace’s qualitatively transformative effects on international politics, particularly the empowerment of previously marginalized actors; and, at the highest analytic level, efforts to theoretically capture the mutually embedded relationship between technology and politics. These themes can help guide future research on cyber international relations, and focus attention on ways that debates within each of the five distinct issue areas are interconnected, and can be usefully approached using a unified conceptual framework.
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