Age of Deception
Journal: Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation)
Year: 2025

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception , Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While such acts of secret statecraft have long been part of global politics, digital systems have dramatically expanded their scope and scale. Yet success in secret statecraft hinges less on sophisticated technology than on political context. To make sense of this, Lindsay offers a general theory of int