{"product_id":"cyber-war-and-cyber-peace-9780755646005","title":"Cyber War and Cyber Peace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Sexton \u003c\/b\u003eis a Fellow and Director of the Cybersecurity Initiative at the Middle East Institute, USA. He previously served as Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Qatar-America Institute, as Senior Analyst at the Chertoff Group, and as Data Manager at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. He has published articles and reports on cyber attacks, cryptography, and their implications for national security, human security, and international norms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza Campbell \u003c\/b\u003eis the Associate Director for Impact and Innovation at the Middle East Institute Policy Center, and a fellow with the Middle East Institute Cyber Program. She was previously a researcher in technology and human rights at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, USA, a 2017-18 Fulbright researcher in Bulgaria, and has worked in the humanitarian field in Jordan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCyber War and Cyber Peace in the Middle East tackles the history of a new and complex domain in a richly historic and notoriously complicated region. Assembling a diversity of perspectives from the Middle East and around the world, it captures a snapshot of the region's cyber flashpoints, delineates their underlying drivers, and begins to chart a path forward. With finesse, it distills a rapidly developing universe of conflict that thornily defies distillation. -- Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, USA\u003cbr\u003eNations and courts struggle to keep pace with the worldwide cyber enterprise and are in danger of being trampled by the proliferation of tools and applications that threaten economic systems, critical infrastructure and those vulnerable sanctums, hearts and minds. The Middle East is an open marketplace for this race, where legal restrictions, defensive platforms, and privacy rights are neglected in pursuit of offensive capabilities with unknown second order effects.  Policymakers owe thanks to the authors of “Cyber War and Cyber Peace in the Middle East” for distilling the urgent questions about international law, authorities, and comparative partner and adversarial capabilities into an explainer that ends with actionable, real world recommendations for international regulations and agreements to prevent interstate cyber conflict going forward, even as the field continues to accelerate. -- Kirsten Fontenrose, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, USA\u003cbr\u003eWe've spent a lot of cycles looking at the macro-level dynamics of cyberconflict or focused on the implications for a single nation.  This book examines the issue in the context of a region whose history, geopolitics, and potential is as complex as cyberconflict itself. -- Matt Devost, CEO of OODA LLC and Founding Director at the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, USA\u003cbr\u003eCyber War \u0026amp; Cyber Peace' raises important issues of the war that is not on the battlefield: sabotage of critical infrastructures, “lone-wolf terrorism” embodied in hacktivism, informational warfare between state actors, and the clash between technology and religion; all these are incorporated and addressed through real-life events which took place in the recent years in the Middle East, providing a riveting sneak peek into a new age in the Middle East – the digital age. -- Ohad Zaidenberg, Lead Cyber Intelligence Researcher of ClearSky Cyber Security and founder of the CTI League, USA\u003cbr\u003eA searing and multi-layered exploration into the manipulation of information in cyberspace as it pertains to the MENA region. Convincingly identifying the destabilizing consequences of a panoply of disinformation, distortion, and influence operations, the authors paint a vivid portrait of the use of cyberspace to undermine safety, institutions, economies and the rule of law. The volume’s proposed solutions for establishing international norms to tackle the threats in cyberspace are a welcome and much needed addition to the literature. A must-read for those concerned not only with fortifying the cyber realm but with the broad questions of international peace and security in the 21st century. -- Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.       Conduct of Code: A Historical Overview of Cyberspace in MENA, \u003ci\u003ePaul Kurtz, TruSTAR Technology, USA; \u0026amp; Aaron Ach, Good Harbor Security Risk Management, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 2.       Cyber Insurance as Cyber Diplomacy, \u003ci\u003eAsaf Lubin, Indiana University Bloomington, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 3.       Industrial Cyber Attacks in the Middle East and International Consequences, \u003ci\u003eSelena Larson, Dragos, USA \u0026amp; Sergio Caltagirone, Dragos, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 4.       Influence Operations in the Middle East and the Prohibition on Intervention,\u003ci\u003e Ido Kilovaty, Yale Law School, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 5.       State-Sanctioned Hacktivism: The Syrian Electronic Army, \u003ci\u003eEvan Kohlmann, Flashpoint, USA \u0026amp; Alex Kobray, Flashpoint, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 6.       Disinformation in the Gulf, \u003ci\u003eJames Shires, Leiden University, The Netherlands\u003c\/i\u003e 7.       Operation Glowing Symphony: The Missing Piece in the U.S. Online Counter-ISIS Campaign, \u003ci\u003eMichael Martelle, National Security Archive, USA \u0026amp; Audrey Alexander, West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 8.       The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East, \u003ci\u003eMohammed Soliman, Middle East Institute, USA 9.       \u003c\/i\u003eA Battle of Two Pandemics: Coronavirus and Digital Authoritarianism in the Arab World, S\u003ci\u003eahar Khamis, University of Maryland, College Park \u0026amp; Middle East Institute, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 10.   Toward a Safer Regional Cyberspace, \u003ci\u003eMike Sexton, Middle East Institute, USA \u0026amp; Eliza Campbell, Middle East Institute, USA\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865786233175,"sku":"9780755646005","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755646005.jpg?v=1722275562","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cyber-war-and-cyber-peace-9780755646005","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}