Cyberspace and Instability, with Fiona Cunningham, Mark Raymond and Mailyn Fidler

This is the video recording of our online seminar featuring Fiona Cunningham, Mark Raymond and Mailyn Fidler on 23 February 2023 (excluding the Q&A). In this talk, they discuss their chapters in the new edited volume Cyberspace and Instability, with additional contributions from Max Smeets and James Shires, two of the volume editors.
**About Cyberspace and Instability**
A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested: vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept; contested because they propose measures that rely - often implicitly - on divergent understandings of cyber stability.
This is a thorough investigation of instability within cyberspace and of cyberspace itself. Its purpose is to reconceptualise stability and instability for cyberspace, highlight their various dimensions and thereby identify relevant policy measures.
It critically examines both 'classic' notions associated with stability - for example, whether cyber operations can lead to unwanted escalation - as well as topics that have so far not been addressed in the existing cyber literature, such as the application of a decolonial lens to investigate Euro-American conceptualisations of stability in cyberspace.
For more information about our research program, please visit our website: www.thehagueprogram.nl
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00:00 Welcome
01:40 Max Smeets, James Shires - Introduction and Framing
08:24 Fiona Cunningham on Preparing the Cyber Battlefield: Assessing a Novel Escalation Risk in a Sino-American Crisis
14:46 Mark Raymond on Cyber Entanglement and the Stability of the Contemporary Rules-Based Global Order
20:44 Mailyn Fidler on Infrastructure, Law, and Cyber Instability: An African Case Study
23:58 James Shires - Closing