Introduction: CyberPolitics in International Relations

Choucri, Nazli

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“…It is a 'backbone of backbones' (Choucri 2012), with all the associated consequences and risks. As a result, the concept of what security means on the Internet has changed.…”

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The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance

Broeders¹

2016

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It advised the Dutch government to make cyberspace and Internet governance a serious priority for its foreign policy. The successful organisation of the Global Conference on Cyber Space in April 2015 (gccs2015) in The Hague provided the Dutch government with an excellent stepping stone to promote its goals of a safe and open Internet through the global arena of cyber diplomacy. Dutch cyber diplomacy will be intensified in the wake of this conference, building -amongst others-on the insights and recommendations put forward in this report.The core messages in the original report and in this book are not limited to the Netherlands however, but have a global appeal. Its main argument is that the Internet's infrastructure and core protocols should be regarded as a global public good that is in need of protection against unwarranted interventions by states and other parties. Its main policy recommendation is that states should work towards establishing an international standard that identifies the Internet's core protocols as a neutral zone in which governments, pursuing their national interests, are prohibited from interfering. This is a goal that is of crucial importance for all states whose societies and economies depend on the integrity and functionality of the Internet. Increasingly, that is the vast majority of states.The original report was drawn up by a project team headed by Dennis Broeders, senior research fellow at the Council and professor of Technology and Society at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The other members of the group were Erik Schrijvers and Lisa Vermeer, both research fellows at the Council. Member of the Council Mark Bovens was also involved in the project.While writing this report, the project group consulted numerous experts in the fields of Internet governance and cybersecurity. Their comments were extremely valuable and the Council would like to thank the interviewees for their time and effort. The Council would also like to thank Jan van den Berg, Nico van Eijk, Marieke de Goede, Erik Huizer and Corien Prins, who commented on earlier versions of the Dutch report. Prof. André Knottnerus Chairman Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy summaryThe Internet's core of key protocols and infrastructure can be considered a global public good that provides benefits to everyone in the world. Countering the growing state interference with this public core requires a new international agenda for Internet governance that departs from the notion of a global public good.internet governance between the technical and the political Everyday life without the Internet has become unimaginable. It is inextricably interwoven with our social lives, our purchasing behaviour, our work, our relationship with the government and, increasingly, with our everyday objects, from smart meters to the cars we drive and the moveable bridges we cross en route. For a long time, Internet governance was the exclusive domain of what is known in Internet circles as the 'technical community'. That community laid the fo...

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“…It is a 'backbone of backbones' (Choucri 2012), with all the associated consequences and risks. As a result, the concept of what security means on the Internet has changed.…”

Section: Internet Securitymentioning

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The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance

Broeders¹

2016

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“…In other words, sustainable development is contingent on the sustainability of all three systems -social, environmental, and cyber (Choucri, 2012). In other words, this proposition recognizes that humans are now embedded in three interconnected systems.…”

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Institutional Foundations for Cyber Security: Current Responses and New Challenges

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Choucri²,

Madnick³

2010

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Almost everyone recognizes the salience of cyberspace as a fact of daily life. Given its ubiquity, scale, and scope, cyberspace has become a fundamental feature of the world we live in and has created a new reality for almost everyone in the developed world and increasingly for people in the developing world. This paper seeks to provide an initial baseline, for representing and tracking institutional responses to a rapidly changing international landscape, real as well as virtual. We shall argue that the current institutional landscape managing security issues in the cyber domain has developed in major ways, but that it is still "under construction." We also expect institutions for cyber security to support and reinforce the contributions of information technology to the development process. We begin with (a) highlights of international institutional theory and an empirical "census" of the institutions-in-place for cyber security, and then turn to (b) key imperatives of information technology-development linkages and the various cyber processes that enhance developmental processes, (c) major institutional responses to cyber threats and cyber crime as well as select international and national policy postures so critical for industrial countries and increasingly for developing states as well, and (d) the salience of new mechanisms designed specifically in response to cyber threats.

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“…(6) Construct the initial detailed system dynamics model (SDM) to model the "state stability" prospects for the two region cases. (7) Run various test cases of the systems dynamics country models with various sets of assumptions regarding the key parameters and alternative intervening actions. (8) Undertake sensitivity analyses of the two country models and map-out the results in terms of the relative 'robustness' of the predicted processes over time.…”

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Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics

2005

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In its Preface, The 9/11 Commission Report states: "We learned that the institutions charted with protecting …national security did not understand how grave this threat can be, and did not adjust their policies, plans, and practices to deter or defeat it" (2004: xvi). Given current realities and uncertainties "better preparedness" can be achieved by identifying, controlling and managing the elusive linkages and situational factors that impact state stability and fuel state decay and destruction -and hence create new threats to the nation's security.We propose to focus on the use of system dynamics modeling techniques to help understand, measure and model the complex dynamics shaping state stability, initially for two regions. We will specifically consider the impacts of unanticipated disruptions, such as a tsunami and its aftermath, on the dynamics of the two regions. For each region, we will deliver a detailed country model, including 3-5 futures predictions in the 6-12 month range along with an analysis of conditions and casual links between predicted futures plus corresponding mitigated options.

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Introduction: CyberPolitics in International Relations

Cited by 32 publications

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The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance

The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance

Institutional Foundations for Cyber Security: Current Responses and New Challenges

Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics

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