About the Book: Cyber Leviathan: Digital Strategies in International Relations
Cyber Leviathan: Digital Strategies in International Relations examines how
cyberspace is transforming power, sovereignty, and security in the twenty-first
century. Moving from great powers to middle and small states, it maps how actors
leverage cyber capabilities for espionage, coercion, and resilience, and how
digital interdependence reshapes classic concepts like deterrence, sovereignty,
and the security dilemma.
Anchored in a Hobbesian reading of the 'state of nature in cyberspace, the book
develops the organising idea of a Cyber Leviathan—an emergent, contested
authority formed by states, tech corporations, institutions, and civil society
that together struggle to impose order