The Coordinates of cyber international relations

Abstract

As the Internet and International Relations become increasingly interwoven, the properties of information goods such as information security, control, or freedom, or those of international activities such as trade, or diplomacy must be framed in the context of emergent behaviors of a system where the Cyberspace interacts with traditional IR. The purpose of this research is to create a foundation for such understanding by conceptualizing the hitherto separate domains of Cyberspace and International Relations into an integrated system, to analyze the fundamental interdependencies between the two domains, using methods from systems analysis.