The leaps that technology has achieved on many levels have also changed the facts in foreign policy. The early years of technological achievements in electronic communications had provided spectacular advantages to the developed countries of the West and especially to the United States. Technology has now spread and especially the Internet has reached everywhere. However, instead of developing into a tool for empowering citizens and spreading the possibilities of freedom, it has fallen into the hands of authoritarian regimes and has become fragmented, turning into a tool that is now quite dangerous and significantly unfree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large and militarily but now also technologically powerful countries, such as Russia and China, are important players in the electronic communications game. Since they express political systems very different from those of the West, their attempt to export their own models of governance and their own systems of moral and social values through the Internet, this becomes extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the auspices of the famous Council on Foreign Relations of New York, Adam Segal, head of a group of special associates, tackled these issues by publishing very recently an extremely interesting related book. “Confronting Reality in Cyberspace: Foreign Policy for a Fragmented Internet”, Council of Foreign Relations, 2022, is a work that reveals many truths and impresses even the experts. At the same time that freedom on the Internet is seriously shaken, cyber threats are on the rise. It is no coincidence that in the public sector as well as in the business sector of the West, the most sought-after and best-paid jobs are those related to so-called cybersecurity. There have already been many confirmed attacks on important electronic infrastructures, involving both government services in the West and serious activities of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs that have cost billions of dollars and disrupted the lives and daily routine of thousands of citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately, most of the attention of state authorities in the West has been directed towards dealing with these issues in the domestic political and economic arena. Experts have hardly dealt with the formulation of a policy to deal with these challenges in the so-called cyber space. The last and most important part of Segal’s book deals with precisely this issue. It therefore reflects a strategy based on three main axes. The first involves building a credible cyber alliance between trusted, mainly Western \u2013 with the addition of Japan \u2013 partners, exerting more targeted cyber pressure on Western adversaries and establishing some real cyber rules, as well as restoring internal means in the US an online classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this publication, the Council on Foreign Relations fully implements a part of its purpose, which is the creation of Action Groups for the study and assessment of challenges facing American foreign policy and the formulation of opinions and proposals to address them. Segal’s book does just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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