Cyberspace and Instability
A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested: vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept; contested because they propose measures that rely – often implicitly – on divergent understandings of cyber stability.
This is a thorough investigation of instability within cyberspace and of cyberspace itself. Its purpose is to reconceptualise stability and instability for cyberspace, highlight their various dimensions and thereby identify relevant policy measures.
It critically examines both ‘classic’ notions associated with stability – for example, whether cyber operations can lead to unwanted escalation – as well as topics that have so far not been addressed in the existing cyber literature, such as the application of a decolonial lens to investigate Euro-American conceptualisations of stability in cyberspace.

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Cyberspace and Instability
A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested: vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept; contested because they propose measures that rely – often implicitly – on divergent understandings of cyber stability.
This is a thorough investigation of instability within cyberspace and of cyberspace itself. Its purpose is to reconceptualise stability and instability for cyberspace, highlight their various dimensions and thereby identify relevant policy measures.
It critically examines both ‘classic’ notions associated with stability – for example, whether cyber operations can lead to unwanted escalation – as well as topics that have so far not been addressed in the existing cyber literature, such as the application of a decolonial lens to investigate Euro-American conceptualisations of stability in cyberspace.

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A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested: vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept; contested because they propose measures that rely – often implicitly – on divergent understandings of cyber stability.
This is a thorough investigation of instability within cyberspace and of cyberspace itself. Its purpose is to reconceptualise stability and instability for cyberspace, highlight their various dimensions and thereby identify relevant policy measures.
It critically examines both ‘classic’ notions associated with stability – for example, whether cyber operations can lead to unwanted escalation – as well as topics that have so far not been addressed in the existing cyber literature, such as the application of a decolonial lens to investigate Euro-American conceptualisations of stability in cyberspace.


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ISBN-13: 9781399512503
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2024
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Chesney holds the James Baker Chair and also serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas School of Law. In addition, he is the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a University-wide research unit bridging across disciplines to improve understanding of international security issues. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, and a former non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution. He is a co-founder and contributor to www.lawfareblog.com, the leading source for analysis, commentary, and news relating to law and national security.

James Shires is a senior research fellow in cyber policy at Chatham House. He is a co-founder and trustee of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI), and is a non-resident associate fellow with The Hague Program for International Cybersecurity. He speaks regularly and has published extensively on cybersecurity and global politics, including The Politics Of Cybersecurity In The Middle East (Hurst/Oxford UniversityPress, 2021). A full list of publications is available at https://www.jamesshires.com/research.

Max Smeets is Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich. He is also an Affiliate at Stanford UniversityCenter for International Security and Cooperation and Research Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, University of Oxford. He has also published widely on cyber statecraft, strategy and risk. Next to his scholarly publications, Max is a frequent contributor to policy outlets, including Washington Post, Lawfare, War on the Rocks, Slate, Cipher Brief, and CFR.

Table of Contents

Introduction Setting the Stage: Rethinking (In)stability In And Of CyberspaceRobert Chesney, James Shires, Max Smeets       Part I: EscalationChapter 1 The Escalation Inversion and Other Oddities of Situational Cyber StabilityJason Healey and Robert JervisChapter 2 Preparing the Cyber Battlefield: Assessing a Novel Escalation Risk in a Sino-American CrisisBen Buchanan and Fiona CunninghamChapter 3 Concept Misalignment and Cyberspace Instability: Lessons from Cyber-Enabled DisinformationJaclyn A. Kerr     Part II: InstitutionsChapter 4 System, Alliance, Domain: A Three-Frame Analysis of NATO’s Contribution to Cyber StabilityJoe Burton and Tim StevensChapter 5 From Reaction to Action: Adopting a Competitive Posture in Cyber DiplomacyEmily O. GoldmanChapter 6 (De)Stabilizing Cyber Warriors: The Emergence of Military Cyber Expertise, 1967-2018Rebecca Slayton       Part III: InfrastructuresChapter 7 Cyber Entanglement and the Stability of the Contemporary Rules-Based Global OrderMark A. RaymondChapter 8 The Negative Externalities of Cyberspace Instability for Global Civil SocietySiena Anstis, Sophie Barnett, Sharly Chan, Niamh Leonard, and Ron DeibertPart IV: Subaltern and decolonial perspectivesChapter 9 Infrastructure, Law, and Cyber Instability: An African Case StudyMailyn FidlerChapter 10 Confronting Coloniality in Cyberspace Debates: Making the Concept of (In)Stability UsefulDensua Mumford

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