Description
Book Synopsis'Cyber security' is a recent addition to the global security agenda. This book explores how cyber security communities' conceptions of time are manifest in political practice. It will be valuable to anyone concerned with how security politics is shaped by visions of past, present and future.
Trade Review'An excellent and very timely book, which intrigues with smart, in-depth, theoretically driven analysis and shows proficient knowledge of several, hitherto uncombined literatures. A must-read for cyber security pundits.' Myriam Dunn Cavelty, ETH Zürich
'Provocative and original, Cyber Security and the Politics of Time reveals alternative ways of understanding the temporal implications of digital geopolitics, illustrating new possibilities in thinking and research at the intersection of social theory, international politics and cyber security.' Mark Lacy, Lancaster University
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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.
