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This chapter addresses the analysis of the phenomenon of modern technique by Martin Heidegger, especially regarding the issue of information societies and the role of the virtual network with respect to providing information about the political behavior of states, which accordingly affects the international security environment. We propose a debate on international relations theory, specifically from the perspective adopted by the Copenhagen School of International Security Studies. We conduct a study from the perception that cyberspace, as a multiverse, is not uniform, and therefore, the various actors emerge with different capacities for political action depending on the dependency of the states and societies to use new information and communication technologies (NICTs) as well as the interconnections with critical infrastructures (i.e., Critical Information Infrastructure).
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Briefly, for Buzan et al. (1998), demonstrating the influence of constructivist formulations in international relations, security would be a self-referential practice: the threat is not objective, but defined in an intersubjective process.
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As the authors say, “Thus, the exact definition and criteria of securitization is constituted by the intersubjective establishment of an existential threat with a saliency sufficient to have substantial political effects” (Buzan et al., 1998: 25).
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Garcia, S.M.A., Palhares, A.I.D. (2014). Reflections on Virtual to Real: Modern Technique, International Security Studies and Cyber Security Environment. In: Kremer, JF., Müller, B. (eds) Cyberspace and International Relations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37481-4_15
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