Cashing in on cyberpower : how interdependent actors seek economic outcomes in a digital world / Mark T. Peters II.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.

1. Entering the Cyber Commons -- Problem -- Research Question -- Interdependence and Power -- Method Development -- Cyber Application and Case Studies -- Summary -- 2. Interdependence -- Why Use Interdependence Theory? -- Interdependent Characteristics of the Virtual State -- Defining Interdependent Cyberspace -- Cyber Operations -- Summary -- 3. Power -- Types of Power -- Power Application -- Power through Economic Cyber Influences -- Summary -- 4. Method Development -- Method Types -- Describing the Data Sources -- Categorizing Cyber Events -- Case Study Guideline -- Summary -- 5. Cyber Applications -- Application in Practice -- Deciphering the Data -- Evaluating the First Four Hypotheses -- Summary 6. Case Study Analysis -- Deciphering Events through Narrative Linkages -- Japanese Government Case: Economic Espionage -- Ukrainian Power Grid Case: Economic Cyberattack -- Codan Case: Intellectual Property Theft -- Evaluating the Economic Hypotheses (H5, H6, H7, H8) -- Summary -- 7. Framing Future Channels -- Linking Hypotheses to the Research Question -- Future Applications -- Final Thoughts -- Appendix: Cyber Events

As the world has become increasingly digitally interconnected, military leaders and other actors are ditching symmetric power strategies in favor of cyberstrategies. Cyberpower enable actors to change actual economic outcomes without the massive resource investment required for military force deployments. Cashing In on Cyberpower addresses the question, Why and to what end are state and nonstate actors using cybertools to influence economic outcomes? The most devastating uses of cyberpower can include intellectual property theft, espionage to uncover carefully planned trade strategies, and outright market manipulation through resource and currency values. Offering eight hypotheses to address this central question, Mark T. Peters II considers every major cyberattack (almost two hundred) over the past ten years, providing both a quick reference and a comparative analysis. He also develops new case studies depicting the 2010 intellectual property theft of a gold-detector design from the Australian Codan corporation, the 2012 trade negotiation espionage in the Japanese Trans-Pacific Partnership preparations, and the 2015 cyberattacks on Ukrainian SCADA systems. All these hypotheses combine to identify new data and provide a concrete baseline of how leaders use cybermeans to achieve economic outcomes. -- Provided by publisher.

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