Cyberpolitics in International Relations: Theory, Methods, Policy

Readings

WEEK #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction—Cyberspace and International Relations	Required Abbott, Kenneth W., and Duncan Snidal. “Hard and Soft Law in International Governance.” In Legalization and World Politics. Edited by Judith L. Goldstein, Miles Kahler, Robert O. Koehane and Anne Marie Slaughter. MIT Press, 2001, pp. 37–72. ISBN: 9780262571517. [Preview with Google Books] Ostrom, Elinor, Joanna Burger, et al. “Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges.” Science 284, no. 5412 (1999): 278–82. Braman, Sandra. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 in Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262513241. Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. Chapters 7 and 8 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780199285433. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. Chapters 1 and 2 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780199285433. [Preview with Google Books] Cassese, Antonio, and Andrew Clapham. “International Law.” In The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. 2nd ed. Edited by Joel Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 408–11. ISBN: 9780195117394. [Preview with Google Books]
2	Evolution of International Relations—Structure, Process, and Levels of Analysis	Required Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. Chapters 10 and 11 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780199285433. [Preview with Google Books] Kay, Sean. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 in Global Security in the Twenty-first Century. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011. Zacher, Mark W. “International Organizations.” In The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. 2nd ed. Edited by Joel Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 418–20. ISBN: 9780195117394. [Preview with Google Books] Kohl, Uta. Chapter 1 in Jurisdiction and the Internet: Regulatory Competence over Online Activity. Cambridge University Press, 2007. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Easton, David. A Systems Analysis of Political Life. John Wiley & Sons, 1965. ISBN: 9780471229407. Eriksson, Johan, and Giampiero Giacomello. “International Relations Theory and Security in the Digital Age.” Paper Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Convention, March 17 20, 2004: Montreal.
3	The Construction of Cyberspace—Concepts and Complexities	Lecture Slides for Week #3 (PDF - 2.9MB) Required Clark, David D. An Insider’s Guide to the Internet. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Version 2.0. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. (PDF) Clark, David D., and Marjory S. Blumenthal. “The End to End Argument and Application Design: The Role of Trust.” Internal Draft MIT CSAIL, 2007. (PDF) Kobrin, S. J. “Territoriality and the Governance of Cyberspace.” Journal of International Business Studies 32, no. 4 (2001): 687–704. Skoudis, Edward. “Evolutionary Trends in Cyberspace.” In Cyberpower and National Security. Edited by Franklin D. Kramer, Stuart H. Starr and Larry K. Wentz. National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, 2009, pp. 147–70. ISBN: 9781597974233. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Talbot, David. “The Internet is Broken.” Technology Review, December 2005/January 2006. Mueller, Milton L. “See Table 8.1 “Stakeholders List in Internet Governance.”” In Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace. MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262632980. [Preview with Google Books] Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. Chapter 3 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780199285433. [Preview with Google Books]
4	Integrating Cyberspace and International Relations	Lecture Slides for Week #4 (PDF - 1.2MB) Required Choucri, Nazli, and David D. Clark. Cyberspace and International Relations: Toward an Integrated System. Version 8-25 for internal ECIR review, August 2011. () Clark, David D., John Wroclawski, et al. “Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 13, no. 3 (2005): 462–75. Kahler, M., ed. Chapters 1 and 11 in Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance. Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780801474767. Wingfield, Thomas C. “International Law and Information Operations.” In Cyberpower and National Security. Edited by Franklin D. Kramer, Stuart H. Starr and Larry K. Wentz. National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, 2009, pp. 525–42. ISBN: 9781597974233. [Preview with Google Books] Benkler, Yochai. “WikiLeaks and the PROTECT-IP Act: A New Public-Private Threat to the Internet Commons.” Daedalus, MIT Press 140, no. 4 (2011): 154–64. Levchenko, K., Andreas Pitsillidis, et al. “Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain.” Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Oakland, California, 2011, pp. 431–46. (PDF - 2.3MB) Recommended Reidenberg, J. R. “Technology and Internet Jurisdiction.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 153 (2005): 1951. Zittrain, Jonathan L. Internet Law Jurisdiction (Internet Law Series). Foundation Press, 2005.
5	Globalization and Transformation	Required Benkler, Y. Chapters 2 and 4 in The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780300125771. Cerny, Philip G. “Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action.” International Organization 49, no. 4 (1995): 595–625. Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. Chapters 1 and 3 in Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262083577. Mayer, Franz C. “Review Essay The Internet and Public International Law—Worlds Apart?.” European Journal of International Law 12, no. 3 (2001): 617–22. Recommended Jackson, Robert, and Georg Sørensen. Chapters 7 and 8 in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780199285433. [Preview with Google Books]
6	Contending Theories of International Relations	Required Dunne, Tim, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, eds. Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 in International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780199548866. Shepsle, Kenneth A. “Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, no. 2 (1989): 131–47. Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. “Lateral Pressure Theory in International Relations: Concept and Theory.” In Handbook of War Studies. Edited by Manus I. Midlarsky. Unwin Hyman, 1989, pp. 289–326. ISBN: 9780044970552. Recommended Grieco, Joseph M. “Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism.” International Organization 42, no. 3 (1988): 485–507. Choucri, Nazli. “The Theory of Lateral Pressure: Highlights.” MIT. Unpublished note, 2011.
7	Expansion of Cyber Access—Evolving Parameters and Power Potentials	Required Required reading related to Professor Madnick’s lecture: Madnick, Stuart, Xitong Li, and Nazli Choucri. “Experiences and Challenges with Using CERT Data to Analyze International Cyber Security.” Working Paper CISL#2009-13, September 2009. (PDF) Anderson, Ross, and Tyler Moore. “The Economics of Information Security.” Science 314, no. 5799 (2006): 610–3. Kohl, Uta. Chapter 4 in Jurisdiction and the Internet: Regulatory Competence over Online Activity. Cambridge University Press, 2007. [Preview with Google Books] Mueller, Milton, and Mawaki Chango. “Disrupting Global Governance: The Internet Whois Service, ICANN, and Privacy.” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 5, no. 3 (2008): 303–25. Lessig, L. “The Zones of Cyberspace.” Stanford Law Review 48, no. 5 (1996): 1403–11. Recommended Recommended reading related to Professor Madnick’s lecture: Ferwerda, Jeremy, Nazli Choucri, and Stuart Madnick. “Institutional Foundations for Cyber Security: Current Responses and New Challenges.” Working Paper CISL#2009-03, September 2010. (PDF) Borgatti, Stephen P., Ajay Mehra, et al. “Network Analysis in the Social Sciences.” Science 323, no. 5916 (2009): 892–5. Lessing, Lawrence. Chapter 6 in Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press, 2008.
8	Cyber Conflicts and Threats to Security—Types & Cases	Required Benkler, Y. “The Battle Over the Institutional Ecosystem in the Digital Environment.” Communications of the ACM 44, no. 2 (2001): 84–90. Knake, Robert K. “Internet Governance in an Age of Cyber Insecurity.” Council on Foreign Relations, Council Special Report No. 56, September 2010. Kugler, Richard L. “Deterrence of Cyber Attacks.” In Cyberpower and National Security. Edited by Franklin D. Kramer, Stuart H. Starr and Larry K. Wentz. National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, 2009, pp. 309–40. ISBN: 9781597974233. [Preview with Google Books] Latham, Robert, ed. Chapters 7, 11 and 12 in Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security. New Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781565848627. Recommended Lessig, L. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Basic Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780465039128.
9	Cyber Cooperation and Modes of Collaboration—Types & Cases	Required David, Paul A. “Toward a Cyber a Cyberinfrastructure for Enhanced Scientific Collaboration: Providing Its ‘Soft’ Foundation May Be the Hardest Part.” In Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy. Edited by Brian Kahin and Dominque Foray. MIT Press, 2006, pp. 431–53. ISBN: 9780262612142. Livnat, Adi, and Marcus W. Feldman. “The Evolution of Cooperation on the Internet.” Complexity 6, no. 6 (2001): 19–23. Reidenberg, J. R. “Resolving Conflicting International Data Privacy Rules in Cyberspace.” Stanford Law Review 52, no. 5 (2000): 1315–71. Solum, Lawrence B. “Models of Internet Governance.” Public Law Research Paper No. 07-25 and Law & Economic Research Paper No. LE08-027, September 3, 2008, Champaign, University of Illinois. Recommended Souter, David. “Louder Voices” and “The International Debate on Developing Country Participation in ICT Decision-Making.” In Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power (The Information Revolution and Global Politics). Edited by W. J. Drake and E. J. Wilson. MIT Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780262042512.
10	Comparative Analysis and Cases in Context	Required Reidenberg, J. R. “The Yahoo Case and the International Democratization of the Internet.” SSRN eLibrary, April 2001. Johnson, David R., and David G. Post. “Law and Borders—The Rise of Law in Cyberspace.” Stanford Law Review 48 (1996): 1367–402. Maclean, Don. “Sovereign Right and the Dynamics of Power in the ITU: Lessons in the Quest for Inclusive Global Governance.” In Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power (Information Revolution and Global Politics). Edited by William J. Drake and Ernest J. Wilson III. MIT Press, 2008, pp. 84–126. ISBN: 9780262042512. Kohl, Uta. Chapters 4 and 5 in Jurisdiction and the Internet: Regulatory Competence over Online Activity. Cambridge University Press, 2007. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Mahoney, James, and Kathleen Thelen, eds. Chapter 1 in Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780521134323. Simon, Herbert A. The Sciences of the Artificial. 2nd ed. MIT press, 1981. ISBN: 9780262191937.
11	International Institutional Challenges Re-Visited—Sovereign States, Private Order, ad hoc Arrangements	Required Caral, J. “Lessons from ICANN: Is Self-Regulation of the Internet Fundamentally Flawed?” International Journal of Law and Information Technology 12, no. 1 (2004): 1–31. Büthe, Tim, and Walter Matti. Chapters 2, 3 and 9 in The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780691144795. [Preview with Google Books] Hall, R. B., and T. J. Biersteker. The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (Cambridge Studies in International Relations). Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780521523370. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Powell, M. J. “Professional Innovation: Corporate Lawyers and Private Lawmaking.” Law & Social Inquiry 18, no. 3 (1993): 423–52. Froomkin, M. “Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the Constitution.” Duke Law Journal 50, no. 1 (2000): 17–186.
12	Global Agenda—Emergent Accord & New Discord	Required Arzberger, Peter, Peter Schroeder, et al. “An International Framework to Promote Access to Data.” Science 303, no. 5665 (2004): 1777–8. Blumenthal, Marjory S., and David D. Clark. “The Future of the Internet and Cyberpower.” In Cyberpower and National Security. Edited by Franklin D. Kramer, Stuart H. Starr and Larry K. Wentz. National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, 2009, pp. 206–50. ISBN: 9781597974233. [Preview with Google Books] Lazer, David, Alex Pentland, et al. “Computational Social Science.” Science 323, no. 5915 (2009): 721–3. Wilson, Ernest J. “Conclusion: Governance of Global Electronic Networks.” In Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power (The Information Revolution and Global Politics). Edited by W. J. Drake and E. J. Wilson. MIT Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780262042512. Recommended Capra, Fritjof. The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability. Doubleday Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780385494717. Newman, Mark. “The Structure and Function of Complex Networks.” SIAM Review 45, no. 2 (2003): 167–256.
13	Alternative Futures—Vision, Principles, Trajectories	Required Gewin, Virginia. “All Living Things, Online.” Nature 418, no. 6896 (2002): 362–3. Giles, Jim. “Scientific Uncertainty: When Doubt is a Sure Thing.” Nature 418 (2002): 476–8. Greenstein, Ran, and Anriette Esterhuysen. “The Right to Development in the Information Society.” Chapters 4, 8 and 12 in Human Rights in the Global Information Society. Edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262101158. Zittrain, Jonathan L. “The Generative Internet.” Harvard Law Journal 119 (2006). Recommended Zittrain, Jonathan L. The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It. Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780300124873. [Preview with Google Books]