Cyber Statecraft: Competition in ‘Middle Ground’ Countries
The competition for influence in cyberspace is being played out in ‘middle ground’ countries that aren’t firmly aligned with the main democratic or autocratic blocks.
From building digital infrastructure to shaping global norms, middle-ground nations like India, Brazil, and South Africa are the focus of a new kind of geopolitical contest.
What does this contest for digital infrastructure look like? And how will countries use newfound cyber capabilities as a strategic tool? Dr Joseph Devanny, Senior Lecturer in National Security Studies at KCL, Dr Arthur Laudrain, Research Associate in Cyber Diplomacy at KCL and Louise Marie Hurel, Research Fellow in Cyber and Tech at RUSI, explain this, and more.
This video is part of the Cyber Statecraft series sponsored by Dstl, the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security.
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