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A Dangerous New Era: Analyzing The Impact Of Cyber Technology On International Conflict, Kenneth Brown
A Dangerous New Era: Analyzing The Impact Of Cyber Technology On International Conflict, Kenneth Brown
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This paper examines the causal relationship between cyber technology’s deep global integration and changes in how states struggle for power in the international system. Specifically, it argues that cyber technology has changed international conflict by providing external actors the ability to penetrate states’ grand strategy decision-making and implementation processes to an unprecedented degree and scope. As a result, the meaning of power has changed from a material-centric metric to one that is more nuanced and difficult to measure.
To explore this hypothesis, the study follows a three-step process. First, it examines the history of cyber technology, how it has become …