International Politics of Cybersecurity

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Over the past 25 years, cyberspace has increasingly become a place of conflict. State and non state actors now regularly use cyber attacks for their own purposes. The spectrum of attacks ranges from espionage operations against commercial and political targets to the sabotage of critical infrastructure with kinetic consequences. In this seminar, we will examine which actors use the digital space and how, and how states are meeting this new challenge.