2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Protecting a Free and Open Internet through Cyber Diplomacy: Conceptual and Practical Challenges
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21K01331
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| Research Institution | International Christian University |
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Principal Investigator |
VOSSE Wilhelm 国際基督教大学, 教養学部, 教授 (70327732)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | cybersecurity / cyber diplomacy / Japan / EU / EU-Japan |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In AY2022, I was able to conduct a series of interviews in Europe with government officials involved in bilateral cyber dialogues as well as in global discourses about cyber norms. I was able to collect and analyze more official material on these discourses to better understand the challenges and achievements of these debates and dialogues. I also further developed the theoretical framework to strengthen my contribution to the literature on cyber diplomacy and the impact of cybersecurity to undermine national security in Japan and in the EU. I also broadened my research to include the growing influence of other emerging technologies like artificial intelligence on democratic political systems and in weakening national security. I published a journal article and one book chapter. I also participated in a CYDIPLO workshop in Tallinn, Estonia, and was invited to give two guest lectures at Leiden University, Netherlands, presented a paper at a conference at ICU, and was a panelist at a seminar of the Pacific Forum International, USA.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Since the phasing out of COVID travel restrictions, I was able to travel to Europe and the UK in June/July 2022 and to Europe in March 2023 for interviews, document collection, and to give lectures and attend workshops and conferences. This helped me to gather the necessary material and present my findings as outlined in the grant application.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In AY2023, the last year of this KAKEN project, I will finish four publications of my own and begin the editing process with my co-editors for the Handbook on Cyberdiplomacy. I am also going to attend workshop meetings with my collaborators and hold a CYDIPLO Tokyo Stakeholder Conference in June 2023. I am planning to attend a conference in the UK and Belgium and return for more public lectures in the Netherlands and Germany. The plan is to finish most of the publications projects by March 2024, however, I have been asked to contribute to more projects which will most likely be published in AY2024.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Attending workshops, conferences, and research group meetings. Preparing conferences in Tokyo, preparing presentations and publications, editing of a handbook.
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