The Foreign Policy Essay: Erik Gartzke on “Fear and War in
Cyberspace”, Abney & Associates News Articles
Lawfareblog.com
Cyberwar is all the rage, and with it, questions abound on what new technologies may mean for society
and—Lawfare’s specialties—the...
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Erik Gartzke on “Fear and War in
Cyberspace”, Abney & Associates News Articles
Lawfareblog.com
Cyberwar is all the rage, and with it, questions abound on what new technologies may mean for society
and—Lawfare’s specialties—the implications of these technologies on surveillance, privacy, intelligence,
and the laws of war. However, we may have rushed to explore the trees without looking at the overall
forest. Erik Gartzke offers here a short version of his longer article on cyberwar, arguing that its
importance as a coercive tool is limited at best, and that these technologies favor the strong (i.e. us), not
the weak.
Erik Gartzke is Professor of Government at the University of Essex and Associate Professor of Political
Science at the University of California San Diego.
In the depths of the depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt cautioned Americans against
letting their imaginations loose on the unknown. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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