The Cyber Threat and Globalization
The Impact on U.S. National and International Security
By (author) Jack A. Jarmon, Pano Yannakogeorgos
Publication date:
26 June 2018Length of book:
280 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
237x159mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781538104309
In the post-industrial age, information is more valuable than territory and has become the main commodity influencing geopolitics today. The reliance of societies on cyberspace and information and communication technologies (ICTs) for economic prosperity and national security represents a new domain of human activity and conflict. Their potential as tools of social disruption and the low cost of entry of asymmetric conflict have forced a paradigm shift.
The Cyber Threat and Globalization is designed for students of security studies and international relations, as well as security professionals who want a better grasp of the nature and existential threat of today’s information wars. It explains policies and concepts, as well as describes the threats posed to the U.S. by disgruntled employees, hacktivists, criminals, terrorists, and hostile governments.
Features
The Cyber Threat and Globalization is designed for students of security studies and international relations, as well as security professionals who want a better grasp of the nature and existential threat of today’s information wars. It explains policies and concepts, as well as describes the threats posed to the U.S. by disgruntled employees, hacktivists, criminals, terrorists, and hostile governments.
Features
- Special textboxes provide vignettes and case studies to illustrate key concepts.
- Opinion pieces, essays, and extended quotes from noted subject matter experts underscore the main ideas.
- Written to be accessible to students and the general public, concepts are clear, engaging, and highly practical.
Globalization and Cyber Security are both currently compelling topics. The first has been running for long enough to have acquired chameleon like characteristics making its consequences hard to interpret and the second, emerging somewhat later, but around for long enough to raise serious anxieties. The communications revolution which matured in the later 20th century has been the fundamental cause of these phenomena and this book makes that relationship very clear. In doing so, it creates a hitherto unfamiliar but vitally important context for linking and then learning about both. Such an achievement would be remarkable but less significant in its effect if it were not for the clarity and ingenuity of the book’s presentation. This is a seriously useful contribution neatly and effectively aimed at the appropriate educational level and will be of great interest to a more general readership as well.