كتاب
Cyber security and the politics of time
| العنوان: | Cyber security and the politics of time |
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| المؤلفون: | Stevens, Tim, 1973- author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| وصف مادي: | x, 269 pages ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Technology and international relations., Internet and international relations., Computer security -- Government policy., Cyberspace -- Security measures -- Government policy., Computer networks -- Security measures -- Government policy. |
| الوصف: | "'Cyber security' is a recent addition to the global security agenda, concerned with protecting states and citizens from the misuse of computer networks for war, terrorism, economic espionage and criminal gain. Many argue that the ubiquity of computer networks calls for robust and pervasive countermeasures, not least governments concerned at their potential effects on national and economic security. Drawing on critical literature in international relations, security studies, political theory and social theory, this is the first book that describes how these visions of future cyber security are sustained in the communities that articulate them. Specifically, it shows that conceptions of time and temporality are foundational to the politics of cyber security. It explores how cyber security communities understand the past, present and future, thereby shaping cyber security as a political practice. Integrating a wide range of conceptual and empirical resources, this innovative book provides insight for scholars, practitioners and policymakers"-- "Security is an inherently temporal proposition. In the modern political philosophical tradition, security is an essential bulwark against the exigencies of an unknowable future. For Thomas Hobbes, whose Leviathan (1651) is a foundation of Western political theory, security is the antidote to a situation in which man, 'in the care of future time, hath his heart all day long, gnawed on by feare of death, poverty, or other calamity; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep' (Hobbes 1996: 76). Security arises as a central feature of the social contract between people and the state, in which the pursuit and practices of security are invoked to calm the jittery present by the imposition of order on times yet to come"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Cyber security, community, time; 2. Towards a politics of time; 3. Diagnosing the present; 4. Imagining the future; 5. Arguing through the past; 6. Inhabiting the future; 7. Cyber security and the politics of time; 8. Conclusion. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn913890274 (PromptCat)40025414826 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-107-10942-1 1-107-10942-6 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014535560.8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9781107109421 1107109426 |
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