Transnational governance of cybersecurity: policy challenges and global inequalities in cyber capacity building

Abstract

Connectivity infrastructure is constantly expanding, increasing internet access across countries, regions and socio-political contexts. Given the fast-changing geography of the internet, there is a growing demand to strengthen cyber capacity beyond national frameworks, in order to develop a transnationally coherent and coordinated governance approach to cybersecurity. In this context, cyber capacity building initiatives are increasingly central in international debates, with the ambition to support countries in the Global South in fostering their cybersecurity strategy from technical and policy perspectives. This article discusses the key factors explaining states’ efforts to enhance their cyber capacity. Based on a cross-national quantitative research approach, the findings contradict international relations (IR)-derived approaches to cybersecurity, which assume that countries develop their cyber capacity according to external security threats, domestic politics or norms. In line with existing research on the role that science plays in policymaking processes more broadly, our results suggest instead that a country’s science and technical knowledge is the most robust explanation for that state’s cyber capacity level. These findings emphasise the need for policymakers to support countries in the Global South in developing their cyber capacity beyond national security paradigms by strengthening education and technical skills in contexts lacking in this resource.     

Fighting for survival: responding to state capacity and terror group end

ABSTRACT

The well-established argument in the literature suggests that the higher state capacity is associatedwith the lower chance of experiencing civil conflict or higherchance of defeating the violent non-state groups. However, theliterature does not sufficiently address how these groups respondto increasing state capacity, and how their responses to that shapethe dynamic of political violence. I investigate the impact of statecapacity on terrorist group termination by exploring the waysterrorist groups respond to increasing state capacity. I argue thatincreasing state capacity might lead to a set of responses fromthe terror group in a way that it might induce the group to producemore terrorist violence to show that the group can still persist. Itmay also encourage the group to provide positive and negativeincentives to its constituents in order to rehabilitate its physicalcapacity to operate, and to prevent a shift of popular support a wayfrom the group towards to the government. Thus, such responsesof the group will decrease the likelihood of its terror campaign. Ialso expect that these arguments are especially relevant for ethnicor religious terror groups. The results of the empirical analysessupport these theoretical expectations.     

广西中越国际河流区水资源承载力评估分析

广西中越国际河流区的水资源开发利用,越来越成为关系到广西边境地区经济社会发展的重要问题,成为关系到中越两国边境和睦与边境和谐的大问题.进行边境地区水资源承载力评估分析,有助于为边境地区水资源的可持续利用、实施水资源安全战略提供参考依据     

环境标准的规制能力再造——以对健康的保障为中心

保障人体健康应该作为环境法律的核心价值追求,而环境标准的性质和特征决定了环境法律保障人体健康的制度路径。但现实社会中,我国环境标准体系存在着内容缺失、灵魂缺失、定位不清、体系紊乱、思路偏差和观念滞后等弊端,决定了环境标准体系在保障人体健康中效果不佳。我们应相应地完善我国环境标准体系中以有效保障人体健康的核心目的和作为判断其绩效的标准、专门规定保障人体健康的环境标准规范,并相应地在立法技术上予以完善,最终发挥环境标准体系在保障人体健康中的作用。     

专利先行实施权的范围

专利的先行实施权是相对于专利权而独立存在的权利,它虽不构成对专利权的侵害,但应在一定范围内进行,其范围包括行业范围、数量范围、主体范围、客体范围,在范围的确定上,我国有不少争议。确定先行实施权的范围应符合我国国情,参照国外做法,予以适当扩大。     

浅议侦查实验笔录

侦查实验笔录具有证据的能力,既可以为刑事案件是否应当立案提供理由,也可以为法庭审查提供证据,或为核实其他证据提供支持。在证据分类上,应当根据侦查实验笔录所记载的具体内容来确定其究竟是归属于言词证据还是实物证据,并应在法律上将其列为单独的一类证据。     

领导干部提高“政治三力”的基本动因、内在逻辑和实践路径

"政治三力"包括政治判断力、政治领悟力和政治执行力。新时代领导干部提高"政治三力"是马克思主义政党政治理论发展的呼唤,是深刻总结中国共产党百年政治建设历史经验的结果,是中国共产党加强政治建设的现实需要。"政治三力"是一个具有严密内在逻辑的统一整体,政治判断力是领导干部提高"政治三力"的基本前提,政治领悟力是关键枢纽,政治执行力是最终归宿。新时代领导干部要坚持旗帜鲜明讲政治这个基本前提,抓好加强党性修养和净化党内政治生态两项重点工作,找准研判和决断、理解和把握、贯彻和落实三个关键着力点,不断提高"政治三力",从容应对各种政治风险和考验,在政治上做到坚定而成熟。     

大力提升警情处置能力之管见

当前,铁路治安形势和安全维稳形势比以往更加复杂,警情发生接连不断,处置难度越来越高,因此,铁路公安机关要立足现实斗争和实战需求,不断更新警情处置理念,始终做好应急准备,规范指挥处置流程,严把重点关键环节,健全应急联动机制,切实做到及时高效处置。     

论云南边疆地区民族乡政府能力建设--基于P民族乡的分析

受各种因素影响,云南边疆地区民族乡政府在自治、经济发展、公共服务、组织协调和学习等方面的能力还有待提高。加强云南边疆地区民族乡政府能力建设。需要从民族乡的社会、经济、文化的发展和国家体制以及政府内部管理等方面进行全方位的变革。并使之成为促进云南边疆地区民族乡经济和社会发展以及加快整个云南省发展的重要保障。