Beyond Cybersecurity: Understanding Risk and Governmentality in a Digital World

by Tim Stevens

Overview

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Our lives depend on digital systems that are powerful—and dangerously exposed. This book uncovers how managing cyber threats shapes politics, influences policy, and quietly steers the way we live and work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529256024
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2026
Series:	Research in Sociotechnical Cyber Security
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tim Stevens is Reader in International Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He has published widely on the politics of cybersecurity, cyberwarfare and cyber conflict, and the relationship between technology and global security in academic articles, edited volumes, and has written two books. He is also editor of the book series Critical Issues in Digital Security and Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Cyber Risk as Risk

2. Modalities: Cyber Risk Management in Practice

3. Logics: Rationality and Belief in Cyber Risk Management

4. Orders: The Spaces and Bodies of Cyber Risk

5. Governmentalities: Cyber Risk and Power

Conclusion: Implications and Futures