The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age

The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age
ISBN-10
161039416X
ISBN-13
9781610394161
Category
Political Science
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2016-02-23
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Author
Adam Segal

Description

In this updated edition of The Hacked World Order, cybersecurity expert Adam Segal offers unmatched insight into the new, opaque global conflict that is transforming geopolitics. For more than three hundred years, the world wrestled with conflicts between nation-states, which wielded military force, financial pressure, and diplomatic persuasion to create "world order." But in 2012, the involvement of the US and Israeli governments in Operation "Olympic Games," a mission aimed at disrupting the Iranian nuclear program through cyberattacks, was revealed; Russia and China conducted massive cyber-espionage operations; and the world split over the governance of the Internet. Cyberspace became a battlefield. Cyber warfare demands that the rules of engagement be completely reworked and all the old niceties of diplomacy be recast. Many of the critical resources of statecraft are now in the hands of the private sector, giant technology companies in particular. In this new world order, Segal reveals, power has been well and truly hacked.

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