Cyber-Security and Threat Politics (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)

<p>This book explores the political process behind the construction of cyber-threats as one of the quintessential security threats of modern times in the US.</p> <p>Myriam Dunn Cavelty posits that cyber-threats are definable by their unsubstantiated nature. Despite this, they have been propelled to the forefront of the political agenda. Using an innovative theoretical approach, this book examines how, under what conditions, by whom, for what reasons, and with what impact cyber-threats have been moved on to the political agenda. In particular, it analyses how governments have used threat frames, specific interpretive schemata about what counts as a threat or risk and how to respond to this threat. By approaching this subject from a security studies angle, this book closes a gap between practical and theoretical academic approaches. It also contributes to the more general debate about changing practices of national security and their implications for the international community.</p>

Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US Efforts to Secure the Information Age (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)

Myriam Dunn, Cavelty

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Securing 'the Homeland': Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)

This edited volume uses a ‘constructivist/reflexive’ approach to address critical infrastructure protection (CIP), a central political practice associated with national security.  The politics of CIP, and the construction of the threat they are meant to counter, effectively establish a powerful discursive connection between that the traditional and normal conditions for day-to-day politics and the exceptional dynamics of national security. Combining political theory and empirical case studies, this volume addresses key issues related to protection and the governance of insecurity in the contemporary world. The contributors track the transformation and evolution of critical infrastructures (and closely related issues of homeland security) into a security problem, and analyze how practices associated with CIP constitute, and are an expression of, changing notions of security and insecurity. The book explores aspects of ‘securitisation’ as well as at practices, audiences, and contexts that enable and constrain the production of the specific form of governmentality that CIP exemplifies. It also explores the rationalities at play, the effects of these security practices, and the implications for our understanding of security and politics today.

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Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US Efforts to Secure the Information Age (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)

Securing 'the Homeland': Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)