The Palgrave Handbook on Cyber Diplomacy

This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive analysis of the emerging field of cyber diplomacy. During the last twenty years a complex cyber ecosystem has been emerging that is increasingly challenged at various levels, in different domains and by a variety of actors. Core issues range from cyber (dis)- information warfare and frequent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure to sophisticated cybercriminals penetrating systems for income or simply securing rights online. Such challenges are not only of a strictly technical nature, but have also important social, economic, legal and geopolitical implications. This broad policy agenda can neither simply be addressed by states alone nor by traditional diplomats that practice or engage in negotiations over securing cyberspace, whether this is in relation to regulations, norms, rules or indeed technologies that can provide security and preserve fundamental rights and freedoms on the Internet. Developments in practice and in theory require more complex conceptualisation and understanding of cyber diplomacy: of what it is, of who practices it where and how? The Handbook seeks to contribute to the wider question on how cyber diplomacy might have affected and changed the tools and approaches of diplomacy itself and might influence the study of diplomacy in the future.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Disciplinary Perspectives and Cyber Diplomacy.- Chapter 2: Cyber Diplomacy in International Relations.- Chapter 3: Cyber Power and Cyber Diplomacy.- Chapter 4: International Law and Cyberspaces.- Chapter 5: Psychology Perspectives on Cyber Diplomacy: Traversing Uncertainty in Cyberspace.- Chapter 6: Technical Perspectives on Cyber Diplomacy.- Chapter 7: Gender and Cyber Diplomacy.- Part II: Key Issues for Cyber Diplomacy and Cyber Diplomats.- Chapter 8: On the Way to Cyber Norms: Legal Frameworks and Human Rights.- Chapter 9: Internet Governance and Cyber Diplomacy.- Chapter 10: Human Rights and Cybersecurity: Contentious Communities in Cyber Diplomacy Practice.- Chapter 11: Seeking Balance between Cyber Diplomacy and Cyber Warfare.- Chapter 12: Cyber Diplomacy in the field of Critical Infrastructure Protection.- Chapter 13: Cybercrime.- Chapter 14: Undesirable Information Online: Unpacking the Complexity of Propaganda, Misinformation, and Disinformation.- Chapter 15: Intelligence Agencies and the Military on Cyber Diplomacy.- Part III: State Actor Approaches to Cyber Diplomacy.- Chapter 16: United States.- Chapter 17: China s Cyber Diplomacy.- Chapter 18: United Kingdom.- Chapter 19: Germany.- Chapter 20: France.- Chapter 21: Estonia.- Chapter 22: Denmark.- Chapter 23: Russia.- Chapter 24: Japan.- Chapter 25: Singapore.- Chapter 26: Korea.- Chapter 27: Australia.- Chapter 28: New Zealand.- Chapter 29: Pacific Islands.- Chapter 30: Brazil.- Chapter 31: South Africa.- Chapter 32: Saudi Arabia and UAE.- Part IV: Global, Regional, and Non-State Actor Approaches to Cyber Diplomacy.- Chapter 33: The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace: A Research Note on Norm Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 34: Tech Corporations and Digital Services.- Chapter 35: Technology Companies as Geopolitical Actors in Cyberspace.- Chapter 36: The European Union as a Cyber Diplomacy Actor.- Chapter 37: Cyber diplomacy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A perspective on the Organisation of American States (OAS).- Chapter 38: Africa s Engagement in Cyber Diplomacy: The African Union and ECOWAS Dimensions.- Chapter 39: Cyber Diplomacy in the United Nations First Committee.- Chapter 40: Regional organizations as global incubators: The OSCE s role in closing the confidence gap between States in cyberspace.- Chapter 41: The Council of Europe: A Key Player in Cyber Diplomacy?.- Chapter 42: Cyber ASEAN: Advancing Cyber Resiliency and Capacity in Southeast Asia.- Index.

About the author

George Christou is Professor of European Politics and Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
Wilhelm Vosse is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Chair of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, Japan.
Joe Burton is Professor of Security and Protection Science at the School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University, UK .
Joachim A. Koops is Professor of Security Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University and Chair of the Board of the Global Governance Institute (GGI) in Brussels.

Summary

This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive analysis of the emerging field of cyber diplomacy. During the last twenty years a complex cyber ecosystem has been emerging that is increasingly challenged at various levels, in different domains and by a variety of actors. Core issues range from cyber (dis)- information warfare and frequent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure to sophisticated cybercriminals penetrating systems for income or simply securing rights online. Such challenges are not only of a strictly technical nature, but have also important social, economic, legal and geopolitical implications. This broad policy agenda can neither simply be addressed by states alone nor by traditional diplomats that practice or engage in negotiations over securing cyberspace, whether this is in relation to regulations, norms, rules or indeed technologies that can provide security and preserve fundamental rights and freedoms on the Internet. Developments in practice and in theory require more complex conceptualisation and understanding of cyber diplomacy: of what it is, of who practices it where and how? The Handbook seeks to contribute to the wider question on how cyber diplomacy might have affected and changed the tools and approaches of diplomacy itself and might influence the study of diplomacy in the future.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joe Burton (Editor), Joe Burton et al (Editor), George Christou (Editor), Joachim A. Koops (Editor), Wilhelm Vosse (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.08.2025
• EAN: 9783031933844
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3193384-4
• No. of pages: 736
• Illustrations: Approx. 735 p. 40 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Internationale Beziehungen, Cyberspace, Zentralregierung, auseinandersetzen, Diplomacy, cyber security, International Security Studies, Governance and Government, Internet Governance, Digital Diplomacy, internet freedom, cyber information warfare, cyber diplomacy