CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Hodzic, Nejra |
|---|---|
| Title | Cyber-diplomacy: Framing the Transformation |
| Summary | Cyber-diplomacy has emerged as one of the terms used to describe the transformation in the conduct of states’ foreign policies as well as the growing importance of cyberspace for global relations. Despite the fact that the scholarship has begun to incorporate cyber-security themes, it remains underexplored from the perspective of international relations theory. This research aims at constructing a new frame for interpreting cyber-diplomacy that will reveal different aspects of the change in inter-state relations facilitated by the development of technology. It sets out to analyze diplomacy from a standpoint of theory on diplomacy and to identify cyber-specific conditions by conceptualizing cyberspace as an environment that stimulates certain forms of relations over others. The frame that comes as a synthesis of the two analyses is finally applied to interpret cyber-diplomacy on the case of Russian interference in the U.S. election. The findings of this study reveal that cyber-diplomacy, aside from being an adaptation to new technology and new areas of foreign policy, is crucially about negotiating constantly changing identities under the conditions of increased ambiguities. These ambiguities consist of a redefined approach to power and identity and are brought out by cyber virtual capacity, networking extensiveness and environment pervasiveness. |
| Supervisor | Alexander Astrov |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/hodzic_nejra.pdf |
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