| ID | 196005 |
| Title Proper | Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kostyuk, Nadiya |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Understanding the diffusion of military capabilities is a central issue in international relations. Despite this, only a few works attempt to explain this phenomenon, focusing on threats. This article explains why threats alone cannot account for cybercapacity-development diffusion and introduces a more consistent explanation: the role of alliances. Allies with cybercapacity help partner-countries without cybercapacity start developing their own capacity to increase the alliance’s overall security by reducing mutual vulnerabilities in cyberspace. Partner-countries that lack cybercapacity are eager to accept this option because it is more favorable than developing cybercapacity on their own. Partner-countries may also start investing in cybersecurity to reduce the likelihood of being abandoned in other, conventional, domains. My new cross-sectional time-series dataset on indicators of a state’s cybercapacity-development initiation for 2000–18 provides robust empirical support for this argument and offers important implications for scholarship on arms, allies, and diffusion. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Peace Research Vol. 61, No.1; Nov 2024: p.44-58 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Peace Research Vol; 61 No 1 |
| Key Words | Learning ; Imitation ; Diffusion ; Survival Analysis ; Military Allies ; Military Cybercapacity |