Description
What policy design space do states have in cyberspace? The framework of conflicting and cooperative relationships between states and semi-state or non-state actors influences the range of opportunities and constraints on the agency of individual states concerning cybersecurity policies. Such policies also consider the logic driving the dynamics in different strategic environments and their possible interdependencies.
This study aims to frame states' policymaking given the domestic and international context of existing power relations and, simultaneously, consider the same states' possibilities of conditioning that context through their policymaking.
Furthermore, this study aims to develop an object-centred conceptual framework, focusing on the analysis of the physical, logical and content components of cyberspace. This approach is helpful for understanding which actors act in the governance of different objects and, thus, identifying the governance space of the single states.
This paper is part of a broader project of my PhD dissertation. In this study, I mainly used conceptual and content analysis to develop the object-centred conceptual framework, and quantitative methods (especially linear regressions, logistic regressions, and multivariate analysis) to test it and to make case selection for subsequent qualitative analysis.
