Prof. Brandon Valeriano, the Bren Chair of Military Innovation at Marine Corps University, based in the USA, participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Cyber Politics.
Cyber Politics
As cyberspace creates new ways for connecting and integrating to aquaspace, geospace, and space, its growing interaction within and across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia are creating complex challenges for the old concepts of sovereignty, stability, and security. Moreover, the democratization of information access to knowledge, and one another further creates new security vulnerabilities.
While the impact of cyberspace on politics was largely ignored until now, the events over the years have begun to identify its effect on the very core of politics. Understandably, it is becoming a cause of great concern for not only national security, but international relations, our core institutions, and the critical decision processes.
Also, the anonymity of cyberspace is already challenging political leverage, influence, national security, diplomacy, governments, governance models, thereby fundamentally shifting the foundations of international relations, security, and peace.
There is a growing concern that the politicization of cyberspace technologies: current layers, as well as emerging, is on its way. Besides, cyberspace also has influenced politics, political operations, and influence.
In short, cyberspace has become an integral component of our lives and our way of living. It is also getting deeply involved in politics, as well. It is, therefore, essential to understand and evaluate:
- How is politics controlling cyberspace? How is cyberspace influencing politics?
- How is it shaping politics? How widely is cyberspace used for political activity?
- Is politics shaping digital disorder or digital disorder shaping politics?
- How does digital technology change democratic politics?
- Since information and communication technologies (ICTs) are influencing not only the political processes but the way state-society interactions happen, how does it impact the politics and international relations? Does it change international relations?
- Has cybersecurity become a political issue? What is the nature of security vulnerabilities political parties across nations are facing?
- Will all models of governance get impacted by cyberspace? Will e-Democracy influence the other models of governance across nations?
- Since cyberspace has connected aquaspace, geospace, and space, how will cyberspace threaten the sovereignty of nations?
Since the politicization of cyberspace is on its way, today, technology-triggered warfare is a more significant threat to the future of humanity. We need to explore ways to contain, control, and finally abolish all-out war for the survival of the human species. The question is whether we will be able to. The time is now to understand and evaluate Cyber Politics.
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About the Guest
Prof. Brandon Valeriano is the Bren Chair of Military Innovation at Marine Corps University, based in the USA.
About the Host of Risk Roundup
Jayshree Pandya (née Bhatt), the founder and chief executive officer of Risk Group LLC(www.riskgroupllc.com), is working passionately to define a new security-centric operating system for humanity. Her efforts towards building a strategic security risk analytics platform are to equip the global strategic security community with the tools and culture to collectively imagine the strategic security risks to our future and to define and design a new security-centric operating system for the future of humanity.
About Risk Roundup
Risk Roundup, a global initiative launched by Risk Group, is a security risk reporting for risks emerging from existing and emerging technologies, technology convergence, and transformation happening across cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace, and space. Risk Roundup is released in both audio (Podcast) and video (Webcast) format and is available for subscription at (Risk Group Website, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, Android, and Risk Group Professional Social Media).
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