This research program encorporates some innovative steps to reach this goal, including:

• Extending current descriptions and theories of international relations to include cyberspace as an opportunity for the exercise of power by states and a source of vulnerability for them;
• Developing case studies that illustrate (a) ways nation states use cyberspace and (b) types of  problems cyber policies must address;
• Specifying taxonomies for cyber threats, their technical bases, and target vulnerabilities and link them these values of categories to specific state and non-state actors;
• Interfacing international relations theories to these taxonomies in the context of cyberspace evolution;
• Developing theories that specify data collection requirements for theory testing and policymaking regarding cyberspace;
• Analyzing broad strategic approaches to cyber defense and their limitations;
• Modeling the problems and possible solutions for multilateral (and bilateral) approaches to collective cyber security and cyber defense;
• Identifying legal and institutional conditions and constraints for cyber security and Internet governance; and
• Analyzing cyber policy objects and developing frameworks for policy choices and assessment of impact on relations among state and non-state actors.

<<Back