Cashing in on cyberpower : how interdependent actors seek economic outcomes in a digital world / Mark T. Peters II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Mark T., II, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberspace operations (Military science).

Cyberterrorism--Political aspects.

Cyberterrorism.

Balance of power--Economic aspects.

Balance of power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

Summary:

As the world has become increasingly digitally interconnected, military leaders and other actors are ditching symmetric power strategies in favor of cyberstrategies. Cyberpower enables actors to change actual economic outcomes without the massive resource investment required for military force deployments. Cashing In on Cyberpower addresses the question, Why and to what end are state and nonstate actors using cybertools to influence economic outcomes? The most devastating uses of cyberpower can include intellectual property theft, espionage to uncover carefully planned trade strategies, and outright market manipulation through resource and currency values. Offering eight hypotheses to address this central question, Mark T. Peters II considers every major cyberattack (almost two hundred) over the past ten years, providing both a quick reference and a comparative analysis. He also develops new case studies depicting the 2010 intellectual property theft of a gold-detector design from the Australian Codan corporation, the 2012 trade negotiation espionage in the Japanese Trans-Pacific Partnership preparations, and the 2015 cyberattacks on Ukrainian SCADA systems. All these hypotheses combine to identify new data and provide a concrete baseline of how leaders use cybermeans to achieve economic outcomes.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

1. Entering the Cyber Commons

Problem

Research Question

Interdependence and Power

Method Development

Cyber Application and Case Studies

Summary

2. Interdependence

Why Use Interdependence Theory?

Interdependent Characteristics of the Virtual State

Defining Interdependent Cyberspace

Cyber Operations

3. Power

Types of Power

Power Application

Power through Economic Cyber Influences

4. Method Development

Method Types

Describing the Data Sources

Categorizing Cyber Events

Case Study Guideline

5. Cyber Applications

Application in Practice

Deciphering the Data

Evaluating the First Four Hypotheses

6. Case Study Analysis

Deciphering Events through Narrative Linkages

Japanese Government Case: Economic Espionage

Ukrainian Power Grid Case: Economic Cyberattack

Codan Case: Intellectual Property Theft

Evaluating the Economic Hypotheses

7. Framing Future Channels

Linking Hypotheses to the Research Question

Future Applications

Final Thoughts

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About Mark T. Peters II.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64012-053-X

1-64012-051-3

OCLC:

1029352671