The hacked world order: how nations fight, trade, maneuver, and manipulate in the digital age

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by  Segal, Adam

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JUST AS HISTORIANS CONSIDER 1947
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two clear sides in the Cold War emerged, we will look back at the year that
between nation-states. Nation-states wielded
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persuasion to create “world order.” Even after
over cyberspace. It was by no means the first year to witness an important
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WHITE the end of the Cold War, the elements comprising
DAVID cyberattack or massive data breach; those had arguably happened several D world order remained essentially unchanged.
ADAM SEGAL times before....It was in 2012 that nation-states around the world visibly
is the Maurice R. Greenberg W But 2012 marked a transformation in geopoli-
Senior Fellow for China studies and director of reasserted their control over the flow of data and information in search of tics and the tactics of both the established powers
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the Program on Digital and Cyberspace Policy at power, wealth, and influence, finally laying to rest the already battered myth and smaller entities looking to challenge the
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the Council on Foreign Relations. His work has R international community. That year, the US gov-
of cyberspace as a digital utopia, free of conventional geopolitics. The assault
appeared in the Financial Times, Economist, L ernment revealed its involvement in “Operation
on this vision was comprehensive, global, and persistent. The conflict in
Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign D Olympic Games,” a mission aimed at disrupting
cyberspace will only become more belligerent, the stakes more consequen-
Affairs, among others. Follow him on Twitter the Iranian nuclear program through cyberat-

@adschina. tial....We will all be caught in the fallout as the great powers, and many of the O tacks; Russia and China conducted massive
lesser ones, attack, surveil, influence, steal from, and trade with each other. R O R D E R cyber-espionage operations; and the world split
over the governance of the Internet. Cyberspace
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gauge. It demands that the rules of engagement
be completely reworked and all the old niceties
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THE HACKED WORLD ORDER

T H E H A C K E D
W O R L D O R D E R
HOW NATIONS FIGHT, TRADE, MANEUVER,
AND MANIPULATE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
A DA M SEG A L
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Names: Segal, Adam, 1968– author.
Title: The hacked world order : how nations fight, trade, maneuver, and
manipulate in the digital age / Adam Segal.
Description: New York : PublicAffairs, 2016. | Includes bibliographical
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Identifiers: LCCN 2015030885| ISBN 9781610394154 (hardback) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Internet and international relations. | Technology and
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Hacked World Order 1
Chapter 2: The Anatomy of Cyber Power 27
Chapter 3: Guardians of Peace, Little Green Men,
and the Electronic Armies of the Future 51
Chapter 4: Breaking Things and the Search for Order 79
Chapter 5: Everybody Spies 111
Chapter 6: The Battle over Data:
Security, Privacy, and Trade Power 143
Chapter 7: Let Slip the Twitter Followers of War:
Information, Ideas, and Legitimacy 175
Chapter 8: Geopolitics Strikes Back: Nation-States
and the Politics of Internet Governance 201
Chapter 9: After Pax Digital Americana 225
Acknowledgments 247
Notes 251
Index 293
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