Cyberspace is the first artificial domain of human interaction – unlike air, land, sea and space it has been created by man and obeys rules established by man. Behaviour in the cyberspace “domain” sometimes seems to indicate, however, that cyberspace is the only dimension where “conventional morality” (and legal terminology) does not apply. Human interaction is clearly being redefined in a way that does not apply to other domains in the same way – if we look at concepts such as “piracy” and “sovereignty”, we can see that there are clearly different definitions and connotations at work. This holds equally true for any kind of concept of “political power” in cyberspace – trends that were, at best, secondary in other domains of human endeavour (such as the “multi stakeholder approach” or the trends towards “distribution of political power”) are clearly dominant in the cyber domain. In essence, Power in Cyberspace will look at the development of these relations within the cyber domain, but also will also ask the question of what the consequences for the “real world” are. Will all political power (and political violence), for instance, go to where cyberspace is leading us? To answer this question it is first important to understand the fundamentals of the internet, cyberspace and the very wide range of political behaviours occurring in and around it.
1. The Rise of a New Domain: What is Cyberspace?
2. How Big a Revolution: Different Views on the Advent of Cyberspace
3. Cyberpower of Today: Norms for the Interactions of Nations, Individuals, Transnational Organisations?
4. Cyberpower & National Cybersecurity: The Experience of China, Russia and the West
5. “Surveillance” or “Payment”? The Morality of Data Protection vs. Deep Data
6. Anyone in Charge? Internet Governance and the Future of Cyberspace
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Alexander KLIMBURG
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Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge; Senior Adviser, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna | |
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Catherine LOTRIONTE
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Director, Institute for Law, Science and Global Security and Visiting Assistant Professor, Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington | |
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Milton MUELLER
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Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, New York | |
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Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge; Senior Adviser, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna
| | Since joining the oiip in October 2006, Alexander Klimburg has acted as an advisor to a number of different governments and international organizations on various issues within cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and EU Common and Foreign Security Policy (CFSP). Mr. Klimburg has partaken in international and intergovernmental discussions, has acted as an advisor to the Austrian delegation at the OSCE, and has been a member of various European and international policy and working groups. He regularly advises on national and European cybersecurity legislation. Before joining the Institute, Mr. Klimburg worked in IT-related consulting and finance in Europe and Asia. He holds a BA degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and received his MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London). |
Director, Institute for Law, Science and Global Security and Visiting Assistant Professor, Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington
| 1993-1996 | Attorney-Advisor, US Department of Justice, New York, NY |
| 1996-2002 | Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, VA |
| 2002 | Legal Counsel, Joint Inquiry Committee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington, DC |
| 2002-2006 | Counsel, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, White House, Washington, DC |
| since 2006 | Director, Institute for Law, Science and Global Security and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director and Founder, CyberProject and Nonproliferation Project, Georgetown University, Washington, DC |
Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, New York
| 1976 | B.A., Columbia College, Chicago |
| 1986 | M.A., Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1989 | Ph.D., Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1992-1997 | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| 1995 | ;1997 Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Systems Management |
| 1998-2003 | Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University |
| 1998-2007 | Director, Graduate Program in Telecommunications and Network Management, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York |
| since 2003 | Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse |
| 2008-2011 | XS4All Professor, Technology University of Delft, The Netherlands |
