Cyberspace:Anarchy or Control? | State Regulation and Conflict in Chinese and Srilankan Cyberspaces

Athulasiri Kumara Samarakoon

ISBN 10: 3845400382 / ISBN 13: 9783845400389

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

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Cyberspace:Anarchy or Control? | State Regulation and Conflict in Chinese and Srilankan Cyberspaces | Athulasiri Kumara Samarakoon | Taschenbuch | 152 S. | Englisch | 2012 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783845400389 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Cyberspace:Anarchy or Control? | State Regulation and Conflict in Chinese and Srilankan Cyberspaces
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3845400382
• ISBN 13: 9783845400389
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 10D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 244 grams
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Synopsis

Cyberspace has redefined international relations by making person to person contact more immediate in a virtual world. Cyber power has empowered a plethora of actors in cyberspace who want to find independence and freedom from the state control. Such anarchical claims of many individuals and groups in cyberspace, however, have proven unrealistic before the state's presence. The state has encountered cyberspace by extending its power of governance to the Internet. All the states in the world use some form of control in their cyberspaces using one or many mechanisms of cyber regulation. China and Sri Lanka are two vivid examples for political control of the Internet. These states have perceived cyberspace activism and politics as a threat to their national security and sovereignty. China has increased the state control by going to the extreme of banning search engines such as the Google. Sri Lanka fights a war in cyberspace against Diaspora Tamils uprooted from their homeland. This book examines China’s panoptical surveillance of cyberspace and Sri Lanka’s counter strategy of cyber war against the secessionist LTTE, representing Srilankan Tamils, from a realist perspective.

About the Author

BA (Hons) in International Relations, Colombo; M.A in Politics and M.Phil in International Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Currently, works as lecturer in Political Science at the Open University of Sri Lanka. His major research interests include cyberpolitics, Sinhala-Tamil conflict and China's growing influence in South Asian region