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" Cyberwars in the Middle East / "
Ahmed Al-Rawi.
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BL
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1091480
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bc1010864
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English
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Al-Rawi, Ahmed K.
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Cyberwars in the Middle East /\ Ahmed Al-Rawi.
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| Publication Statement
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New Brunswick :: Rutgers University Press,, [2021]
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War culture
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x, 178 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781978810105
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: 1978810105
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: 9781978810112
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: 1978810113
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9781978810129
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9781978810136
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9781978810143
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Towards a Theoretical Framework of Cyberwars -- Cyberwars and International Politics -- US Cyber Operations in the Middle East -- Russian Trolls, Islam, and the Middle East -- Cyberwars and Regional Politics -- Arab Hackers and Electronic Armies.
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"Cyber Wars in the Middle East argues that hacking is a form of online political disruption whose influence flows vertically in two directions (top-bottom or bottom-up) or horizontally. These hacking activities are performed along three political dimensions: international, regional, and local. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi argues that political hacking is an aggressive and militant form of public communication employed by tech-savvy individuals, regardless of their affiliations, in order to influence politics and policies. Kenneth Waltz's structural realism theory is linked to this argument as it provides a relevant framework to explain why nation-states employ cyber tools against each other. On the one hand, nation-states as well as their affiliated hacking groups like cyber warriors employ hacking as offensive and defensive tools in connection to the cyber activity or inactivity of other nation-states, such as the role of Russian Trolls disseminating disinformation on social media during the US 2016 presidential election. This is regarded as a horizontal flow of political disruption. Sometimes, nation-states, like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, use hacking and surveillance tactics as a vertical flow (top-bottom) form of online political disruption by targeting their own citizens due to their oppositional or activists political views. On the other hand, regular hackers who are often politically independent practice a form of bottom-top political disruption to address issues related to the internal politics of their respective nation-states such as the case of a number of Iraqi, Saudi, and Algerian hackers. In some cases, other hackers target ordinary citizens to express opposition to their political or ideological views which is regarded as a horizontal form of online political disruption.This book is the first of its kind to shine a light on many ways that governments and hackers are perpetrating cyber attacks in the Middle East and beyond, and to show the ripple effect of these attacks"--
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Information warfare-- Middle East.
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Cyberspace-- Political aspects-- Middle East.
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Hacking-- Middle East.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING / Military Science.
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Cyberspace-- Political aspects.
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Hacking.
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Information warfare.
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Information warfare-- Middle East.
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Cyberspace-- Political aspects-- Middle East.
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Hacking-- Middle East.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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355.4
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U163.A37 2021
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