CMS Researcher Tobias Liebetrau co-edits speciel edition of International Affairs
CMS Researcher Tobias Liebetrau has co-edited a special section on cybersecurity and international relations in the latest issue of International Affairs. The special section demonstrates the benefits of understanding cybersecurity through international relations and understanding international relations through cybersecurity. The contributions show how insights from cybersecurity are helpful in advancing empirical and methodological debates about digital transformations in IR.
The special section also includes the introductory article by Tobias and co-editor Linda Monsees "Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics". Here they argue that cybersecurity and digital technology are neither optional additions to the theory and practice of international relations nor issues that can neatly be isolated from other world affairs. Put simply, today, international relations are digital.
According to Tobias, there is a need for IR scholarship to further explore how the digital constitutes international relations and international relations constitutes the digital.
Read the special section here.
Read the introductory article here.