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Institutions for Cyber Security: International Responses and Global Imperatives

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  • Nazli Choucri
  • Stuart Madnick
  • Jeremy Ferwerda

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Almost everyone recognizes the salience of cyberspace as a fact of daily life. Given its ubiquity, scale, and scope, cyberspace has become a fundamental feature of the world we live in and has created a new reality for almost everyone in the developed world and increasingly for people in the developing world. This paper seeks to provide an initial baseline, for representing and tracking institutional responses to a rapidly changing international landscape, real as well as virtual. We shall argue that the current institutional landscape managing security issues in the cyber domain has developed in major ways, but that it is still "under construction." We also expect institutions for cyber security to support and reinforce the contributions of information technology to the development process. We begin with (a) highlights of international institutional theory and an empirical "census" of the institutions-in-place for cyber security, and then turn to (b) key imperatives of information technology-development linkages and the various cyber processes that enhance developmental processes, (c) major institutional responses to cyber threats and cyber crime as well as select international and national policy postures so critical for industrial countries and increasingly for developing states as well, and (d) the salience of new mechanisms designed specifically in response to cyber threats.

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  • Nazli Choucri & Stuart Madnick & Jeremy Ferwerda, 2014. "Institutions for Cyber Security: International Responses and Global Imperatives," Information Technology for Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(2), pages 96-121, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:20:y:2014:i:2:p:96-121
    DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2013.836699
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    1. Oecd, 2005. "The Promotion of a Culture of Security for Information Systems and Networks in OECD Countries," OECD Digital Economy Papers 102, OECD Publishing.
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    1. Christopher Whyte, 2018. "Crossing the Digital Divide: Monism, Dualism and the Reason Collective Action is Critical for Cyber Theory Production," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(2), pages 73-82.
    2. Andrey Makarychev & Elizabeth Wishnick, 2022. "Anti-Pandemic Policies in Estonia and Taiwan: Digital Power, Sovereignty and Biopolitics," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-23, March.

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