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Rethinking Cyber Warfare provides a fresh understanding of the role that digital disruption plays in contemporary international security and proposes a new approach to more effectively restrain and manage cyberattacks.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I Cyberattacks and Restraint
- Chapter 1: Defining and Studying Cyberattacks
- Chapter 2: Defining and Studying Restraint
- Part II Deterrence
- Chapter 3: Evaluating Deterrence
- Chapter 4: Constructing Deterrence
- Part III International Law and the Use of Force
- Chapter 5: Limiting the Use of Force
- Chapter 6: Constructing Self-Defense
- Part IV Humanitarian Protections
- Chapter 7: Humanitarian Protections
- Chapter 8: Constructing a Prohibition
- Conclusion
About the author
R. David Edelman holds research appointments at MIT's Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) and Center for International Studies (CIS) and teaches in its Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. He previously served in the United States Federal Government, including six years at the White House -as the first Director for International Cyber Policy on the National Security Council and later as Special Assistant to the President for Economic & Technology Policy on the National Economic Council. He began his career at the State Department, where he helped found its Office of Cyber Affairs. He holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.Phil and D.Phil in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.
Summary
Rethinking Cyber Warfare provides a fresh understanding of the role that digital disruption plays in contemporary international security and proposes a new approach to more effectively restrain and manage cyberattacks.
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