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The opportunities provided by the information and communications technology, with a special emphasis on the Internet, have become an integral part of life. However, are we sufficiently aware and prepared as individuals, nations or the international community for the threats coming from cyberspace or for the denial of the use of that dimension of communication, commerce and even warfare? Namely, despite...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has an extraordinary role to play in many aspects since its establishment. However, previous achievements of the organization were mainly under political and historical perspective, and quantitative study is scarce. The Social Network Analysis (SNA) is considered to be a powerful data mining tool, and it has become a new hotspot of international relations...
Instead of neatly assigning ethics, morality, and responsibility to numerous cyber intrusions occurring all over world, this research analyzes the complexities of state relations in the realm of high-profile cyber attacks. Specifically, it utilizes an international relations prisoner's dilemma to explain the complexities of cyber intrusions and how nation-states can deal with these new exigencies...
In this paper we try to determine whether a potential state-aggressor in a recent cyber attack can be identified through an understanding of shared international dependencies between nations. Combining the International Affairs and Systems Science disciplines, we put forth a system dynamics model of cyber conflict which may facilitate the identification of a culpable state or states in a cyber attack...
The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the hitherto separate domains of Cyberspace and International Relations into an integrated socio-technical system that we jointly call the cyber International Relations (Cyber-IR) system and to identify and analyze its emergent properties utilizing the methods common to science and engineering systems adapted here for the social sciences. Our work is an...
Can IT and the Internet promote and strengthen global civil society and democracy? How does the Internet create conditions for improving the delivery of services to the common public? Reviewing ICT initiatives in India leads to a set of recommendations for developing and implementing ICT-based initiatives of interest to common citizens and the government, some of which might be useful for Tunisia,...
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