Part I. Foundations of Polycentric Regulation in Cyberspace: 1. Defining the cyber threat in Internet governance; 2. Who controls cyberspace? Analyzing cyberspace through polycentric governance; Part II. Managing Vulnerabilities: 3. Hacking the planet, the Dalai Lama, and you: managing technical vulnerabilities in the Internet; 4. The new cyberwarfare: securing critical national infrastructure in the digital age; 5. Risky business: enhancing private sector cybersecurity through the competitive market; Part III. The Law, Politics, and Promise of Cyber Peace: 6. The law of cyber war and peace; 7. Cyber peace.
This book presents a novel framework to reconceptualize internet governance and better manage cyber attacks.
Professor Scott J. Shackelford serves on the faculty of Indiana University, where he teaches cybersecurity, business law and sustainability, among other courses, and is a fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. He has written more than 30 articles, essays and book chapters that have been published in outlets such as the Yale Law and Policy Review, the New York University Environmental Law Journal, the American Business Law Journal, the Stanford Journal of International Law, the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the Stanford Law Review Online. Professor Shackelford has also written op-eds on the topic of cybersecurity that have been published in the Huffington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jurist, and the Washington Times, and his research has been covered by National Public Radio, Forbes, C-SPAN, USA Today, and Kelley Magazine. His academic work has been recognized with awards including the Stanford Law School Steven Block Civil Liberties Award for Writing on Civil Rights. Shackelford also received the Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award for Excellence in 2011, and the Elinor Ostrom Award in 2015.
''Interdisciplinary' is often overused to the point of being
meaningless, but Shackelford truly demonstrates the real value of
practical, truly interdisciplinary thinking that is required to
confront the escalating challenges of international cyber risks.
Piecemeal approaches of only policy, technology, or geography are
inadequate to the challenge, and Shackelford's background and
expertise shine through in timely and useful guidance for the many
of us who deal with these challenges every day.' Brad Wheeler, Vice
President for IT and CIO, Indiana University
'Professor Scott Shackelford's Managing Cyber Attacks in
International Law, Business, and Relations is the first work to
deftly surmount the interdisciplinary barriers that have so hobbled
effective discourse in the stove-piped field of cyber security. His
argument for employing polycentric governance to securing 'cyber
peace' is both novel and thought-provoking - it is out-of-the-box
thinking at its best. While every reader may not be convinced by
Shackelford's vision, all will be challenged to revisit their own
views on the subject.' Michael Schmitt, Director, Stockton Center
for the Study of International Law, Naval War College, and
Director, Tallinn Manual and Tallinn 2.0 projects
'Shackelford tackles the complexities of cyber policy formulation
and in a time when others are focusing too much on cyber war, he
offers a fresh route to achieve cyber peace.' Richard A. Clarke,
former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure
Protection, and Counter-terrorism for the United States, and author
of Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do
About It
'Scott Shackelford's Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law,
Business, and Relations is a must-read for anyone interested in
cybersecurity. By turns informative, yet hopeful, it provides a
good outline of one potential avenue to cyber peace. Shackelford's
book is thought-provoking and innovative, even when you disagree
with him.' Paul Rosenzweig, Georgetown Professor and former Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security
'Professor Scott Shackelford's book is a timely intervention to
press for cyber peace at a time when many nations, global
institutions and enterprises are threatened by cyberattacks. I urge
all readers of this excellent treatise to take its lessons to heart
and seek greater multistakeholder cooperation to combat the growing
array of cyber threats around the world ... Shackelford ably
explores the dynamics of cyber threats and the security
implications of fractured Internet governance, the weapons that are
continuously evolving to strike at the vulnerabilities in
cyberspace, and the urgent need to secure critical national
infrastructure in the digital age and embrace cybersecurity best
practices in order to prevent cyber war and secure cyber peace.' Dr
Hamadoun I. Toure, Secretary-General, International
Telecommunication Union (from the Foreword)
'Amid a growing collection of narrow, stove-piped treatments of the
topic of cyber security, Professor Shackelford offers a truly
holistic look at one of the world's most pressing security
dilemmas. Equal parts law, politics, and business, this compelling
text is essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a more
complete and informed perspective on cyber security. Shackelford
impressively reduces the formidable legal and technical barriers to
understanding this challenging subject, all the while maintaining
an admirably high level of sophistication and nuance.' Sean Watts,
Creighton University School of Law, and co-author of the Tallinn
Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare
'Scott Shackelford is the rare scholar with expertise in the
practical functioning of the Internet, its commercial and
communication context, and the international law essential to
governing this truly global phenomenon. The value of his expertise
is seen in the goal of his book - getting the world to focus on
cyber peace instead of nihilistic cyber war.' Mary Ellen O'Connell,
Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, University of Notre
Dame
'Making and maintaining cyber peace is [a] compelling international
challenge. This book affords a fresh and original approach to the
vexed problem of dealing with cyber attacks in a world grown wary
of new international treaties and with lax to non-existent
enforcement mechanisms for such law as does apply. Shackelford
extends the model of polycentric governance to the arena of
cybersecurity, recommending that the partial vacuum of norms be
filled with a wide variety of security and enforcement structures,
from bilateral treaties and regional partnerships to industry and
trade organizations. A must-read book for every stakeholder.' Don
Howard, Director, Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and
Values, University of Notre Dame
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