Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU

Backman, Sarah

doi:10.1080/09662839.2022.2069464

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“…Existing scholarship has approached EU cybersecurity through the lens of securitisation, identifying the EU as a securitising actor behind a continuous process of collective securitisation in the field of cybersecurity (Christou, 2019) and observing tendencies of both securitisation and riskification (Backman, 2022). These enquiries are dominated by generalised conceptions of securitisation and threat versus risk logics, relying on the analytical framework of securitisation being ‘characterized by a circular logic of defining and modulating hostile factors for the purpose of countering them politically and administratively’ (Huysmans, 2006, p. 61).…”

Section: Re‐problematising Eu Cybersecurity: Analytical Challenges Fo...mentioning

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Problematising EU Cybersecurity: Exploring How the Single Market Functions as a Security Practice

Liebetrau

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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This article furthers the debate between European Studies and Critical Security Studies by demonstrating how European Union (EU) single market integration functions as a security practice in the area of cybersecurity. It explores how the EU has rendered digitisation as a security concern and cybersecurity emerged as an object of EU governance by developing an analytical approach based on problematisation. Situating the problematisation approach in the genealogical tradition of Foucault, it argues that it provides us with an analytical toolbox enabling inquiry into the conditions that make contemporary security problems possible, powerful and changeable. Tracing EU security problematisations of digitisation over four decades, it shows how the single market has come to function as a security practice and stresses the political implications of it. The final part of the article re‐problematises the findings to afford insights into how they can be rethought at the intersection of European Studies and Critical Security Studies.

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Section: Re‐problematising Eu Cybersecurity: Analytical Challenges Fo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Problematising EU Cybersecurity: Exploring How the Single Market Functions as a Security Practice

Liebetrau

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Yet, this risk-based approach was replaced by a threatbased understanding of cybersecurity. 10 Given the comprehensive approach advocated by the EUGS, Helena Carrapico and André Barrinha indicate that the central concept around which the EU's cyber policies have been revolving is primarily coherence. According to the authors, coherence implies "institutional coordination and the existence (or not) of shared views on security, threats and potential responses."…”

Section: A Review Of the Literature On The Eu's Actorness In Cyberspacementioning

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The Development of Eu Cybersecurity Policy: From a Coordinating Actor to a Cyber Power?

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2022

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The aim of the article is to elaborate on the institutional and normative evolution of the European Union (EU) cybersecurity policy. The article primarily argues that the EU’s approach to cyberspace has recently focused on economic and security concerns. Secondly, the article contends that the actorness of the EU in the cyberspace has been evolved from a coordinating role to a more powerful one. The article is structured as follows: In the first part of the article, the literature on the EU’s actorness in cyberspace is reviewed. In the second part, the institutional and normative development of EU cybersecurity policy is evaluated. Three strategy papers published by the European Commission in 2013, 2017, and 2020 are elaborated, respectively.

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Cybersecurity in Politics

Marwala

2023

Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory and Mechanism Design in Politics

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Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Problematising EU Cybersecurity: Exploring How the Single Market Functions as a Security Practice

Problematising EU Cybersecurity: Exploring How the Single Market Functions as a Security Practice

The Development of Eu Cybersecurity Policy: From a Coordinating Actor to a Cyber Power?

Cybersecurity in Politics

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