CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Klingova, Katarina |
|---|---|
| Title | Securitization of Cyber Space in the United States of America, the Russian Federation and Estonia |
| Summary | This research elaborated the difference in securitizing discourse of cyber security. The Copenhagen School’s theory of securitization, in particular the three discourses of securitization of cyber space presented by Lene Hansen and Helen Nissenbaum, serve as the theoretical framework for this study. This paper uses the method of content analysis of the latest cyber security strategies of the United States, the Russian Federation, and Estonia as the official securitization speech to analyze the prevailing securitization discourse in these countries. The case selection is not random as the three analyzed countries are the leading nations in the securitization of cyber space. The results of the manual coding of official doctrines as well as of the frequency tables of the open source software Raw Text to Tag Cloud Engine show that securitizing frameworks of cyber securities differ among the three analyzed countries. The securitization of daily life discourse is the most prevailing in the doctrines of the United States and Estonia, while the Russian strategy is a hypersecuritization framework. The analysis showed the difference in terminologies used and in the comprehension of cyber space. While both Estonian and the U.S. strategies distinguish between the expressions "cyber" and "information", the Russian strategy uses the term "information" for both concepts. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/klingova_katarina.pdf |
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