Contribution to Book
De-Escalation Pathways and Disruptive Technology: Cyber Operations as Off-ramps to War
Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace
(2022)
Abstract
This chapter unpacks the strategic logic of interactions during a crisis involving cyber capable actors. It outlines the limits of coercion with cyber options for nation-states. After proposing a theory of cyber crisis bargaining, we explore evidence for associated propositions from survey experiments linked to crisis simulations and a case study of the US-Iranian militarized dispute in the summer of 2019.
Keywords
- deterrence,
- cyber off-ramp,
- escalation,
- kinetic attack,
- wargames
Disciplines
Publication Date
2022
Editor
Scott J. Shackelford, Frederick Douzet, Christopher Ankersen
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781108845038
DOI
10.1017/9781108954341.004
Citation Information
Brandon Valeriano and Benjamin Jensen. "De-Escalation Pathways and Disruptive Technology: Cyber Operations as Off-ramps to War" New YorkCyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace (2022) p. 64 - 93 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brandon-valeriano/27/