Abstract
This thematic issue advocates a range of novel theoretical and methodological directions applicable to cybersecurity studies. Drawing on critical International Relations theory, Science and Technology Studies, participant observation, quantitative political science, and other social science methods and theory, the contributors advance modes of invigorating the exploration of cybersecurity as an assemblage of sociotechnical practices. In so doing, this issue seeks to enhance understanding of the politics and strategies of cybersecurity, one of the most complex and diverse technical and political challenges of our contemporary world.
Highlights
This thematic issue suggests novel theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of global cybersecurity
From obscure technical origins in computer science and information security, cybersecurity has emerged as a major political consideration for states, multilateral organizations, firms and civil society in the early twenty-first century
The struggle to regulate and govern this complex landscape is mirrored by a lack of diversity in the theory and methods used to comprehend this novel environment and to understand political responses to its problems
Summary
This thematic issue suggests novel theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of global cybersecurity. The briefest survey of news headlines will reveal diverse cybersecurity issues affecting contemporary societies, from low-level Internetenabled criminality to military cyber operations and strategic interventions via computer networks in the domestic affairs of world powers. These are functions of economic and political motives but are enabled and exacerbated by our increased reliance on and imbrication with transnational assemblages of information technologies. The struggle to regulate and govern this complex landscape is mirrored by a lack of diversity in the theory and methods used to comprehend this novel environment and to understand political responses to its problems This thematic issue hopes to offer ideas for redressing this imbalance
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