The role of cybersecurity in world politics
- Authors: Tsakanyan V.T.1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
- Issue: Vol 17, No 2 (2017): The Ideology, morality and international relations: the experience of the East and West
- Pages: 339-348
- Section: PEACE AND SECURITY
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2313-0660/article/view/338947
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2017-17-2-339-348
- ID: 338947
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate a significant and increasing role of cybersecurity in world politics. Cybersecurity threats are one of the main national security, public safety, and economic challenges every nation faces in XXI century. Cyberspace is a defining feature of modern life. Individuals and communities worldwide connect, socialize, and organize themselves in and through cyberspace. The existence of numerous cyber security issues on various spheres of life naturally increase political interest in resolving them. The need for cybersecurity is growing ranging from particular cases to national and international - becoming the main problem of diplomacy and world politics. Based on the different national approaches, cybersecurity is seen as the instrument to gain national interests. All countries believe that cybersecurity is an instrument to achieve state’s national interest, since more of the modern theories are focus in the material gain. Meanwhile, some countries see cybersecurity as the tool to influence the adversaries’ perception. This condition build based on the enormous destruction power of cyberattacks. In contrast with the two main approaches, the national security institutions emphasize to the idea, not the material gain. The difference between these national security approaches is the way to use this instrument is used in order to gain the objectives. Indeed, cybersecurity has an important and special role in the world politics.
About the authors
Vladimir Tigranovich Tsakanyan
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
Email: vladt20@mail.ru
Moscow, Russia
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