Defending Democracies (eBook, ePUB)

Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age
Redaktion: Ohlin, Jens David; Hollis, Duncan B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Russian covert interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election elevated the topic into a national priority, but that experience was far from an isolated one. Evidence of election interference by foreign states or their proxies has become a regular feature of national elections and is likely to get worse in the near future. Information and communication technologies afford those who would interfere with new tools that can operate in ways previously unimaginable: Twitter bots, Facebook advertisements, closed social media platforms, algorithms that prioritize extreme views, disinformation, misinformation, and malware that steals secret campaign communications. Defending Democracies examines the problem through an interdisciplinary lens and focuses on: (i) defining the problem of foreign election interference, (ii) exploring the solutions that international law might bring to bear, and (iii) considering alternative regulatory frameworks for understanding and addressing the problem. The result is a deeply urgent examination of an old problem on social media steroids, one that implicates the most central institution of liberal democracy: elections. The volume seeks to bring domestic and international perspectives on elections and election law into conversation with other disciplinary frameworks, escaping the typical biases of lawyers who prefer international legal solutions for issues of international relations. Taken together, the chapters in this volume represent a more faithful representation of the broad array of solutions that might be deployed, including international and domestic, legal and extra-legal, ambitious and cautious.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197556993
• Artikelnr.: 61169249

Autorenporträt

Duncan B. Hollis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University. He is editor of the award-winning Oxford Guide to Treaties (2012, 2nd ed., 2020) and co-editor (with Allen Weiner) of the textbook, International Law (2018). Professor Hollis is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a member of the American Law Institute, and an elected member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States. He consults regularly on issues of international law and cybersecurity, including for the Microsoft Corporation and its "digital peace" agenda. Jens David Ohlin is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell Law School. He specializes in international law and criminal law. He specifically focuses on the laws of war with special emphasis on the effects of new technology on the waging of warfare, including unmanned drones in the strategy of targeted killings, cyber-warfare, and the role of non-state actors in armed conflicts. He authored The Assault on International Law (2015) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Duncan B. Hollis and Jens David Ohlin
* I. Election Interference by Foreign Powers: Understanding Its History
and its Harm(s)
* Chapter 1. Should we worry about partisan electoral interventions?
The nature, history, and known effects of foreign interference in
elections
* Dov H. Levin
* Chapter 2. Understanding Disinformation Operations in the 21st
Century
* Steven J. Barela and Jérôme Duberry
* Chapter 3. Weaponizing Information Systems for Political Disruption
* Valeria Marcia and Kevin C. Desouza
* Chapter 4. Protecting Democracy by Commingling Polities: The Case for
Accepting Foreign Influence and Interference in Democratic Processes
* Duncan MacIntosh
* II. Understanding Election Interference via a Comparative Lens
* Chapter 5. The Specter of Chinese Interference: Examining Beijing's
Inroads into India's Digital Spaces and Political Activity
* Arun Mohan Sukumar and Akhil Deo
* Chapter 6. A Swedish Perspective on Foreign Election Interference
* Alicia Fjällhed, James Pamment, and Sebastian Bay
* Chapter 7. When Does Election Interference Via Cyberspace Violate
Sovereignty?
* James Van de Velde
* III. Combatting Foreign Election Interference under International Law
* Chapter 8. Foreign Election Interference and International Law
* Chimène Keitner
* Chapter 9. Cybersecurity Abroad: Election Interference and the
Extraterritoriality of Human Rights Treaty Obligations
* Ido Kilovaty
* Chapter 10. The Dangers of Forceful Countermeasures as a Response to
Cyber Election Interference
* Jacqueline Van de Velde
* Chapter 11. Election Interference: A Unique Harm Requiring Unique
Solutions
* Jens David Ohlin
* Chapter 12. The Free Speech Blind Spot: Foreign Election Interference
on Social Media
* Evelyn Douek
* IV. Combatting Foreign Election Interference Through Other Means
* Chapter 13. Foreign Election Interference and Open-Source Anarchy
* David P. Fidler
* Chapter 14. Defending Democracies via Cybernorms
* Duncan B. Hollis and Jan Neutze
* Chapter 15. Using Campaign Finance Reform to Protect U.S. Elections
from 'Dark Money' and Foreign Influence
* Ian Vandewalker and Lawrence Norden
* Chapter 16. Conclusions
* Herb Lin