Cyberpolitics in International Relations

"Almost everyone, and almost everywhere, has access to the Internet and makes use of cyber venues in one way or another. Until recently, cyberspace was con­sidered largely a matter of low politics—background conditions and routine decisions and processes. In recent years, issues connected to cyberspace and its uses have catapulted into the highest of high poli­tics. A newly coined term, "cyberpolitics," refers to the conjunction of two processes: those pertaining to politics surrounding the determination of who gets what, when, and how, and those enabled by the uses of cyberspace, a new arena of virtual interactions."