Cognitive Warfare

Grey Matters in Contemporary Political Conflict
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-64919-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

Reihe: Studies in Intelligence

This book explores the conceptual, historical, and ethical issues of information conflict to present a detailed analysis of cognitive warfare.

Is it possible for liberal democracies to deliberately use information on civilian populations to impact political and social institutions? While information conflict has been a part of political conflict, warfare, and international relations for as long as there has been political competition, given that our modern political and social lives are saturated by information, we are now faced with a pressing set of reasons to understand cognitive warfare, and to place it in a wider historical and technological context. This book identifies a series of conceptual and ethical challenges facing liberal democracies around modern information conflict. Drawing from historical practices, it suggests that two values – human dignity and political autonomy – can explain why some acts of cognitive warfare might be judged to be good while other acts are judged to be bad.

This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies, and International Relations.

Chapters 7 and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henschke, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments   

Part I: Information, Democracies, and Cognitive Warfare       

1: On Grey Matters in Cognitive Warfare

2: The Information Age and Democracy      

3: Beyond Information, Influence, and Interference       

4: On Information, Intelligence, and Power           

Part II: Histories of Cognitive Warfare    

5: Grey Matters in International Relations: From Military Deception to Political Conflict, to Cognitive Warfare         

6: Grey Matters in Domestic Activities: Subversives, Terrorists, Institutional Actors, People           

7: Grey Matters in Technologies: From Terrorism to Insurrection        

Part III: Ethics and Cognitive Warfare      

8: Hypocrisy, Grey Matters, and Norms in Cognitive Warfare: Matters of Inconsistency and Why Inconsistency Matters

9: Foundational Moral and Political Values

10: The Limits and Futures of Cognitive Warfare     

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Henschke is Assistant Professor with the Philosophy Section at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.