MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

system focused on the evolving, diverse & complex interconnections of cyberspace & international relations... Almost everyone recognizes that cyberspace is a fact of daily life. Given its ubiquity, scale, and scope, cyberspace - including the Internet, the billions of computers it connects, its management, and the experience it enables - has become a central feature of the world we live in and has created a new reality for almost everyone and everywhere... At the same time, information and communication systems - the foundations of all human societies and social interactions - are accorded rather limited attention in all major theories of international relations. Despite the centrality of all forms of information exchange - in all contexts and cultures, conditions or situations - content of communications, conduits, and forms of connectivity remain more marginal than is appropriate in world politics or in international relations more broadly defined.

Also known as: Cyber-IR

Primary location: Cambridge United States