The Myth of Cyberwar
Bringing War in Cyberspace Back Down to Earth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11263136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Gartzke (0000-0001-9439-1310, Erik Gartzke is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and Professor of Government at the University of Essex., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 41-73 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2889 • E-ISSN: 1531-4804 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/isec_a_00136 |
| OpenAlex | W2110485449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 108 |
| References cited | 34 |
Cyberwar has been described as a revolution in military affairs, a transformation of technology and doctrine capable of overturning the prevailing world order. This characterization of the threat from cyberwar, however, reflects a common tendency to conflate means and ends; studying what could happen in cyberspace (or anywhere else) makes little sense without considering how conflict over the internet is going to realize objectives commonly addressed by terrestrial warfare. To supplant established modes of conflict, cyberwar must be capable of furthering the political ends to which force or threats of force are commonly applied, something that in major respects cyberwar fails to do. As such, conflict over the internet is much more likely to serve as an adjunct to, rather than a substitute for, existing modes of terrestrial force. Indeed, rather than threatening existing political hierarchies, cyberwar is much more likely to simply augment the advantages of status quo powers
Computer security · Cyberspace · Cyberwarfare · Doctrine · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Status quo · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Information and Cyber Security · Law
Für eine multitemporale Bestimmung von Cybersicherheit
Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft
Material Sources of Grand Strategy
Cyber Security Politics
Ransom War
Escalation firebreaks in the cyber, conventional, and nuclear domains
New Questions for an Old Alliance
Rethinking Secrecy in Cyberspace
Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks
Public Secrets
How Can We Know What We Think We Know about Cyber Operations
Spaces of Global Security
Offensive Cyber Capabilities and State Violence
Algorithms at War
Between Structural Realism and Liberalism
The Microfoundations of State Cybersecurity
Cyber Conflict as Statecraft
Cyberattacks, Psychological Distress, and Military Escalation
The Bureaucratic Politics of Cyber Strategy
Digital Retaliation? Denial-of-Service Attacks after Sanction Events
Japan’s national cyber security strategy
Beyond the Basics
Spatiotemporal characteristics and drivers of global cyber conflicts
Macht im Cyberspace
Cyber-Intervention Unit Against Genocide
A Prevention Strategy in Combatting the Online Actions of Terrorist Organizations
Rivalry Type and Cyber Operations
Wargaming as a Methodology
Cartographier un angle mort
Cyber conflict vs. Cyber Command
The Imperial Republic and Pax-Americana
Techno-Digital Vulnerability and Intelligence Failures
Fear of the (Un)known
Building centaur responders
The People’s Republic of China’s Cyber Coercion
Cyber-bombing Isis
Surprise, ontological security, and Russia’s imperialist cyberwarfare
The better angels of our digital nature? Offensive cyber capabilities and state violence
Beyond tit-for-tat in cyberspace
A theory of actor-network for cyber-security
SorryNotSorry
The hidden threat of cyber-attacks – undermining public confidence in government
A tale of two cybers - how threat reporting by cybersecurity firms systematically underrepresents threats to civil society
Cyberspace as an Extended Policy Domain for Citizen Well-being
Cyberwarfare in the Korean Peninsula
Great Power Cyberpolitics and Global Cyberhegemony
Emotions and the construction of international political thought
A conceptual critique of remote warfare
Overcoming uncertainty in cyberspace
Another manifestation of cyber conflict
Cyber-attacks and psychological IR perspectives
Studying the Internet and Violent conflict
Tracing strategic preferences in cyberspace
Deterring Cyber Coercion
Cyber Security Responsibilization
The rise of companies in the cyber era and the pursuant shift in national security
Dissecting the Digital World
Cyber security meets security politics
The paradox of power in cyberconflict
Saving face in the cyberspace
How cyberspace affects international relations
Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war
The Battlefield and the Wire
What lurks beneath the tip of the iceberg? Exploring the “missingness” problem in cyber events data
Introduction
Just cyber war
Intellectual property theft and national security
The Impact of China on Cybersecurity
What Is the Cyber Offense-Defense Balance? Conceptions, Causes, and Assessment
Dead Wrong
Mutual assured destruction in information, influence and cyber warfare
Transnational governance of cybersecurity
Strategic studies and cyber warfare
Theorizing cyber coercion
On the asymmetric advantages of cyberwarfare. Western literature and the Chinese journal Guofang Keji
A matter of time
How does the offense-defense balance scale
The capability/vulnerability paradox and military revolutions
New technology, old strategy
Publicly attributing cyber attacks
Minding the gap? The strategic logic of cyber coercion in theory and practice
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict
Deterrence by denial in cyberspace
Stuxnet revisited
Extended deterrence and assurance in an emerging technology environment
Cyber campaigns and strategic outcomes
Responding to Uncertainty
How the process of discovering cyberattacks biases our understanding of cybersecurity
Public Opinion and Cyberterrorism
Social media and Russian territorial irredentism
Fighting in Cyberspace
Invisible Digital Front
How Social Media Is Changing Conflict
Deterrence in the Cyber Realm
Bureaucracy and Cyber Coercion
Breaking the Myth of Cyber Doom
The Determinants of Uncertainty in International Relations
Hacking Nuclear Stability
What's in a Name? Metaphors and Cybersecurity
Digital Interdependence and Power Politics
War and anti-war
War and Change in World Politics
The Advent of Netwar
Technology, Military Advantage, and World War I
What Is the Offense-Defense Balance and How Can We Measure It
Attack and Conquer? International Anarchy and the Offense-Defense-Deterrence Balance
Why China Cannot Conquer Taiwan
Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War
Cyber War Will Not Take Place
Safety in Cyberspace
The Pursuit of Power
Cooperation under the Security Dilemma
The Security Dilemma Revisited
Rational Deterrence in an Imperfect World
Offense-Defense Theory
The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology
Rationalist explanations for war
Feigning Weakness
Territory, Contiguity, and International Conflict
Offense-Defense Theory and Its Critics
Neorealism's status‐quo bias
The past as prologue
Stuxnet and the Limits of Cyber Warfare
Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma
A Revolution in Warfare
Affecting trust
Nuclear Myths and Political Realities
Polarity, the Offense-Defense Balance, and War
Virtual Defense
Midway
| Unique citing works | 108 |
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| Citations per year | 9 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 106 |