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Subversion: From Covert Operations to Cyber Conflict

Subversion: From Covert Operations to Cyber Conflict


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In Subversion, Lennart Maschmeyer provides a powerful new theory and analysis of an age-old concept. While a strategy of subversion offers great strategic promise in theory, it faces an underappreciated set of challenges that limit its strategic value in practice. Drawing from two major cases--the KGB's use of traditional subversion methods to crush the Prague Spring in 1968 and Russia's less successful use of cyberwarfare against Ukraine since 2014--Maschmeyer demonstrates both the benefits and weaknesses of the approach. While many believe that today's cyber-based subversion campaigns offer new strategic opportunities, they also come with their own challenges. Because of these disadvantages, cyber operations continue to fall short of expectations--most recently in the Russo-Ukrainian war. By showing that traditional subversion methods remain the more potent threat, Subversion forces us to reconsider our fears of the subversive potential of cyberwar.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1: Subversion and Power Chapter 2: Information Technology and Subversion Chapter 3: Traditional Subversion: Crushing the Prague Spring 1968-1973 Chapter 4: Cyber-Enabled Subversion: Russia's 'Hybrid War' against Ukraine 2013-2018 Chapter 5: Subversion in War: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine 2022 Subversion, Evolved: New Possibilities and New Perils Bibliography

About the Author :
Lennart Maschmeyer is a senior researcher in cybersecurity at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and an MPhil from the University of Oxford. His work has been published in International Security, the European Journal of International Relations, and the Journal of Information Technology and Politics and has received wide news coverage.

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This even-handed and thoroughly researched study of subversion adds significantly to our understanding of covert cyber operations carried out by nations against adversaries. With insightful case studies of Russian invasions into Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Ukraine in 2013 and again in 2022, the book proved a highly readable and reliable examination of cyber conflict in the modern era." In Subversion: From Covert Operations to Cyber Conflict, Lennart Maschmeyer develops a deductive theory of subversion that he skillfully applies with rich case studies to a carefully scoped set of cases and strategic outcomes. When applied to cyber operations, he helps advance understanding of cyber's utility, particularly the limits of cyber effects operations as tools of regime change or as substitutes for physical attack." This is a genuinely important book. That's because a generation of policymakers and opinion formers have been conditioned to think of cyber capabilities both those pointed against them and their own - as immediately available, low-risk, easy-to-use tools that can deliver decisive and - if you want - deniable impact against a range of targets...Maschmeyer has done a public service with his meticulously researched and extensively evidenced debunking of such nonsense. Lennart Maschmeyer's work effectively reflects the way in which the actors of international relations act in this social space of secrecy located at the intersection of the internal and international fields.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780197745861
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 147 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 499 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0197745865
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: From Covert Operations to Cyber Conflict
  • Width: 226 mm


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