Introduction to Special Issue: Cybersecurity, Sovereignty, and U.S. Foreign Policy

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes For a deeper insight into the risks and vulnerabilities at hand, see NCAFP Cybersecurity and U.S. Foreign Policy Roundtable Report (2013), http://www.ncafp.org/ncafp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/NCAFP-Cyber-Roundtable_Cybersecurity-Challenge-Response_Nov6.131.pdf. See also J. Healey and K. Grindal, A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986–2012 (Arlington, VA: Cyber Conflict Studies Association, 2013). See, for example, C. Kavanagh and D. Stauffacher, “A Role for Civil Society?: ICTs, Norms and CBMs in the Context of International Security,” ICT4Peace, Geneva (2014), http://ict4peace.org/new-ict4peace-publication-a-role-for-civil-society-in-cybersecurity-affairs/. Additional informationNotes on contributorsCamino KavanaghMs. Camino Kavanagh is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, where her focus is on war, information technologies, and transformation of strategic affairs. She is a senior advisor to the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), where she has played a key role in shaping the Committee's annual roundtable series on cybersecurity and U.S. foreign policy, and senior advisor to the Geneva-based ICT4Peace Foundation for whom she regularly writes policy briefs and reports on different issues pertaining to ICTs in the context of international and regional security. Camino is also a senior non-resident fellow at New York University's Center for International Cooperation (CIC) where her focus has been on the impact of transnational threats such as organized crime and extremism on security, governance, and development; and she is an advisory board member of the recently established Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime. Prior to this, she worked with various international organizations in peacekeeping and post-conflict reform efforts, including UN peacekeeping operations in Africa and Central America, and has served as advisor to different governments in Central America and Southeast Asia.