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Responding to Cyberterrorism: Options and Avenues

Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Lee Jarvis

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Volume: Summer, Issue: Cyber V, Pages: 134 - 143

Swansea University Author: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo

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The range of counterterrorism tools available to states and other actors is both large and diverse. Military, legal, and political instruments are all widely used - often underpinned by competing conceptions of what ‘terrorism’ is. In this article, we seek briefly to sketch some of the ways in which...

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Published in: Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
ISSN: 1526-0054
Published: 2015
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21460
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Abstract: The range of counterterrorism tools available to states and other actors is both large and diverse. Military, legal, and political instruments are all widely used - often underpinned by competing conceptions of what ‘terrorism’ is. In this article, we seek briefly to sketch some of the ways in which a new addition to the terrorism ‘family’ has been or might be confronted: cyberterrorism. Although a contested concept (in part - but not only - because of the broader contestability of ‘terrorism’), a growing literature is now taking shape on how best to confront this ‘threat’, if it is, indeed, a threat. Our article seeks to take stock of some of this literature, to point to relevant related debates within terrorism research, and to identify some of the particularities of dealing with cyberterrorism.
Keywords: Terrorism; cyberterrorism; attribution; vulnerability; constructivism; deconstructivism
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: Cyber V
Start Page: 134
End Page: 143