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Cyber power / by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Title
Cyber power / by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Author
Nye, Joseph S.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, ©2010.

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Additional Authors
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Description
24 pages; 28 cm
Summary
Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that smaller actors have more capacity to exercise hard and soft power in cyberspace than in many more traditional domains of world politics. Changes in information have always had an important impact on power, but the cyber domain is both a new and a volatile manmade environment. The characteristics of cyberspace reduce some of the power differentials among actors, and thus provide a good example of the diffusion of power that typifies global politics in this century. The largest powers are unlikely to be able to dominate this domain as much as they have others like sea or air. But cyberspace also illustrates the point that diffusion of power does not mean equality of power or the replacement of governments as the most powerful actors in world politics.
Uniform Title
Harvard Kennedy School Working Papers and Reports.
Subject
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Internet > Political aspects
  • Balance of power
  • Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
  • Internet > Aspect politique
  • Équilibre des puissances
  • Balance of power
  • Internet > Political aspects
Note
  • "May 2010."
  • "This essay is drawn from the author's forthcoming book, 'The future of power in the 21st century, ' Public Affairs Press, 2011"--Page 2 of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Information and power diffusion -- Power -- Cyber power -- Actors and their relative power resources -- Google and China -- Governments and governance -- Conclusion.
OCLC
  • 753318731
  • SCSB-10397046
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library