경제, 사이버, 안보의 이중 사안 연계

Abstract

Linkage politics has been less discussed at the domestic level than at the international level, overlooking how the international environment affect the domestic process of linking issues. The article suggests two analytical concepts of double-issues linkage and reversed one. The former illuminates various modes of how more than two issues can be linked, while the latter illustrates how a certain mode of issue-linkage can be reversed, such that means and ends are inverted. This research analyzes cases related to hardware, software and data nexus, where economic, cybersecurity and national security issues are considered conjointly. Such cases are, but not limited to, incidents of Colonial Pipeline (2021), port cranes of ZPMC (2023), 5G of Huawei (2018~), SolarWinds (2020), and a variety of data security breaches. The United States governments have introduced a mutitude of national strategies and policies to address those issues, not only linking economic, cybersecurity, and national security concerns, but also reversing the linking in the way that serves national security objectives over those of other issue areas. This study advances our understanding of how domestic issuelinkages, which may become the basis of international strategy, are formed under a particular international environment, namely, the US-China strategic competition.