Security in Cyberspace

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This excellent volume brings exciting new perspectives to the fast-moving field of cybersecurity studies. Giacomello and colleagues provide novel analyses of whose security is at stake in cyberspace. Complexities and intricacies of surveillance, attacks, governance, and privacy in cyberspace are unpacked and presented in a critical and accessible way in this collection. Given today's digitally connected world and global cyberplagues, the readership of this timely book should be very wide indeed. * Johan Eriksson, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and Soedertoern University, Sweden * Giacomello's edited volume explores the conjunctions of two prominent but contested terms 'security' and 'cyberspace' and how these manifest themselves, for better or worse, in a wide range of contemporary contexts, from nuclear weapons to Wikileaks. The text is admirably wide-ranging in terms of its contributors too, featuring contributions from IT specialists, politics scholars, media scholars, engineers, an arms control specialist, and others. It also contains a diversity of national viewpoints focusing not just on the US perspective, but also analyses of the EU's and China's perspectives on cybersecurity issues contributed by European and Chinese scholars respectively. Today's cyber security scene is complex, contested, and multi-layered, this text makes the reader cognisant of this whilst also providing an accessible map of this space. * Dr. Maura Conway, Senior Lecturer in International Security, Dublin City University *