Defending Democracies : Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age

Jens David Ohlin

ISBN 10: 0197556973 / ISBN 13: 9780197556979

Editore: Oxford University Press Feb 2021, 2021

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Neuware - Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Defending Democracies seeks to bring domestic and international perspectives on elections and election law into conversation with other disciplinary frameworks, presenting a broad array of solutions.

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• Titolo: Defending Democracies : Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age
• Editore: Oxford University Press Feb 2021
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0197556973
• ISBN 13: 9780197556979
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 243 L x 170 A x 37 P (millimetri) 243 millimetri di larghezza per 170 millimetri di altezza per 37 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 750 grammi

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Riassunto

Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Russian covert interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election elevated the topic into a national priority, but that experience was far from an isolated one. Evidence of election interference by foreign states or their proxies has become a regular feature of national elections and is likely to get worse in the near future. Information and communication technologies afford those who would interfere with new tools that can operate in ways previously unimaginable: Twitter bots, Facebook advertisements, closed social media platforms, algorithms that prioritize extreme views, disinformation, misinformation, and malware that steals secret campaign communications.

Defending Democracies examines the problem through an interdisciplinary lens and focuses on: (i) defining the problem of foreign election interference, (ii) exploring the solutions that international law might bring to bear, and (iii) considering alternative regulatory frameworks for understanding and addressing the problem. The result is a deeply urgent examination of an old problem on social media steroids, one that implicates the most central institution of liberal democracy: elections.

The volume seeks to bring domestic and international perspectives on elections and election law into conversation with other disciplinary frameworks, escaping the typical biases of lawyers who prefer international legal solutions for issues of international relations. Taken together, the chapters in this volume represent a more faithful representation of the broad array of solutions that might be deployed, including international and domestic, legal and extra-legal, ambitious and cautious.

Informazioni sull?autore

Duncan B. Hollis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University. He is editor of the award-winning Oxford Guide to Treaties (2012, 2nd ed., 2020) and co-editor (with Allen Weiner) of the textbook, International Law (2018). Professor Hollis is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a member of the American Law Institute, and an elected member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States. He consults regularly on issues of international law and cybersecurity, including for the Microsoft Corporation and its "digital peace" agenda.

Jens David Ohlin is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell Law School. He specializes in international law and criminal law. He specifically focuses on the laws of war with special emphasis on the effects of new technology on the waging of warfare, including unmanned drones in the strategy of targeted killings, cyber-warfare, and the role of non-state actors in armed conflicts. He authored The Assault on International Law (2015) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons (2021).