Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book explores the key challenges associated with the proliferation of cyber capabilities.

Karsten Friis is Senior Adviser and Head of the Research Group on Security and Defence at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway.

Jens Ringsmose is an Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark.

Preface, Michael Rühle Introduction, Karsten Friis & Jens Ringsmose 1. Competing Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to Strategic Cybersecurity, Hans-Inge Langø 2. From Cyber Threats to Cyber Risks, Karsten Friis and Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud 3. Cyber Spillover Conflicts: Transitions from Cyber Conflict to Conventional Foreign Policy Disputes?, Ryan C. Maness and Brandon Valeriano 4. Power, Rivalry and Cyber Conflict: An Empirical Analysis, Allison Pytlak and George E. Mitchell 5. Cybersecurity in Sweden and China: Going on the Attack?, Johan Eriksson and Johan Lagerkvist 6. Who Pays for Zero-days? Balancing Long-term Stability in Cyberspace against Short-term National Security Benefits, Michel Herzog and Jonas Schmid 7. How to Govern Cybersecurity?: The Limits of the Multi-stakeholder Approach and the Need to Rethink Public-private Cooperation, Lilly Pijnenburg Muller 8. Cyber Warfare by Social Network Media, Thomas Elkjer Nissen 9. Politics and the development of legal norms in cyberspace, Anders Henriksen 10. Cyber Weapons: Oxymoron or a Real World Phenomenon to be Regulated?, Bill Boothby 11. Law in the Militarization of Cyberspace: Framing a Critical Research Agenda, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik