R. David Edelman, Distinguished Fellow, Internet Policy Research Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology R. David Edelman holds research appointments at MIT's Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) and Center for International Studies (CIS) and teaches in its Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. He previously served in the United States Federal Government, including six years at the White House -as the first Director for International Cyber Policy on the National Security Council and later as Special Assistant to the President for Economic & Technology Policy on the National Economic Council. He began his career at the State Department, where he helped found its Office of Cyber Affairs. He holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.Phil and D.Phil in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.
At 340 pages of elegantly written but dense text, and with an extraordinarily rich 36-page bibliography, the book was written for academics and, perhaps to a lesser extent, serious policy makers....the book will be an important addition to the curriculum in military academies and university level courses on regulating cyberspace. Moreover, it will be exceptionally useful for those in the world of statecraft and the military who want to think more deeply about how the international order can and should bring some level of control to cyberweapons. * Glenn S. Gerstell, The Cipher Brief * If this analogy holds, those devising the norms for cyber warfare face a challenge similar to that faced by early-20th-century scholars who were horrified at the lethal prospects of mustard gas. Recommended. * Choice *