Gorczeski, Vinicius (2018) The Middle East’s Cyber Power: How Syria’s cyber war asphyxiated Civil Society Organizations’ efforts against the Assad regime. Working Paper. -, Budapest. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the Syrian government’s cyber strategy to crack down on activists that have started operating in cyberspace since the civil war broke out in 2011. The analytical exercise is done though the lenses of the geopolitics of the Internet and international relations. Focus is placed on Iran and Russia’s participation in aiding the Syrian regime to control narratives of the conflict through disseminating fake news and propaganda. Such strategy has undermined global actors’ understanding of the conflict. Grounded on the potential negative policy implications of that strategy, this paper proposes policy recommendations that think tanks, humanitarian organizations, and other international non-governmental actors and local grassroots can adopt together. The objective is to discuss tools that can bypass and overcome state control of cyberspace in closed regimes in order to ensure that accurate information flows among key actors involved in shedding light on, and responding to, an obscure conflict.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Title in English: | The Middle East’s Cyber Power: How Syria’s cyber war asphyxiated Civil Society Organizations’ efforts against the Assad regime |
| Keywords: | Syrian Civil War, Middle East, Iran, Russia, Cyberspace, Journalism, Social Media, Fake News, Disinformation Campaign, censorship |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Divisions: | Institute for Political Science |
| Depositing User: | Gorczeski Vinicius |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2019 14:08 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2019 08:02 |
| URI: | https://openarchive.tk.mta.hu/id/eprint/406 |
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