A Crisis of Trust in Transatlantic Cybersecurity Relations in the Post-Snowden Era
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Authors
Maness, Ryan
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Cybersecurity
cyber espionage
information warfare
transatlantic relations
resiliency
cyber espionage
information warfare
transatlantic relations
resiliency
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2018
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Abstract
A crisis of trust between the United States and its European allies has existed since the advent of the leaked classified documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed the potential overreach of digital surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA). Disagreements over privacy, security, and individual liberty has put the US at odds with its European friends. As the Obama Administration worked to rectify the past overreach by the NSA and implement more oversight on the agency, another crisis has engulfed the West; the rise of populist platforms with Russian cyber and information warfare accompanying these movements. With the United States electing populist candidate Donald Trump as president, the crisis of transatlantic trust has widened further with the new administration’s “America First” policies. This chapter addresses potential avenues for resilience as both sides of the Atlantic endure the populist phenomenon while striking a balance between security and individual liberty on the one hand, and keeping the transatlantic bond intact on the other.
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Defense Analysis (DA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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16 p.
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Maness, Ryan C. "A Crisis of Trust in Transatlantic Cybersecurity Relations in the Post-Snowden Era." (2018)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.