Cyberpolitics in international relations: theory, methods, policy

Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session

This course focuses on cyberspace and its implications for private and public, sub-national, national, and international actors and entities. Topics include legacies of the 20th-century creation of cyberspace, changes to the international system structure, and new modes of conflict and cooperation. Students will examine whether international relations theory accommodates cyberspace as a new venue of politics, and how cyberpolitics alters traditional international politics.

This course is open to undergraduate and graduate students with permission from the instructors.

Students taking the graduate version are expected to pursue the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research.

For all students, the requirements include a choice of one of the following:

Evolution of International Relations

Structure, Process, and Levels of Analysis

The Construction of Cyberspace

Concepts and Complexities

Expansion of Cyber Access

Evolving Parameters & Power Potentials

International Institutional Challenges Re-­Visited—Sovereign

States, Private Order, ad hoc Arrangements

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