Cyber threats and national security

Document Type : Research Paper

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This article tries to explain effects of cyber threats on national security. Authors claim that cyber threats has raised phenomenon of power dispersion which enables small states to exercise their authority , and enables new actors like corporations, organized groups and individuals, to participate in globalised power equations. So they argue that, cyber threat has influences on national security in aspects of: concept of security, state-centrism in security, geographical aspect of threats, diffusion of vulenerabilities, diversity of actors in security field and way of confronting threats.

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  • Receive Date 10 November 2011
  • Revise Date 15 April 2012
  • Accept Date 21 April 2012

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