Beschreibung:
Examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature.
Introduction. 1. Closing the Gap Between International Relations Theory and Studies of Digital-Age Security Part 1: The Politics of Threats 2. The Virtual Sanctuary of Al-Qaeda and Terrorism in an Age of Globalization 3. From 'Cyberterrorism' to 'Cyberwar', Back and Forth: How the United States Securitized Cyberspace Part 2: The Politics of Protection 4. Securing the Information Age: The Challenges of Complexity for Critical Infrastructure Protection and IR Theory 5. Assessing Theories of Information Technology and Security for the Middle East 6. Public-Private Cooperation and Information Assurance: A Liberal Institutionalist Approach 7. International Policy Dynamics and the Regulation of Dataflows: Bypassing Domestic Restrictions Conclusion. 8. Digital-Age Security in Theory and Practice