International relations and cyber security: Micro cyber alliance theory (Micro-CAT)

Inherent of international relations, power struggle and conflict fact maintain its alteration with its qualitative characteristics. One of the most important point of this alteration is cyber security and cyber deterrence area, which have some effects to international politics and differentiated from power concept at this area. Historical approaches and progress about international security have indicated that cyber security has some arguments at international politics with the concepts like deterrence, war and asymmetry. If we assumed that periodical conflicts are dealt with cyber attacks and alliances at interstates, maximizing the interest of international actors could provide an important logical framework with regard to perspective of literature. There are many different data for activating the relations of interstates in the meaning of cyber struggle. With the dimension of international relations and apart from its interdisciplinary area, economical data of argument dimension have been assisted with different analysis at international politics. In this subject, some of the cyber politics and theoretical approaches with regard to regional characteristics reveal a necessity in terms of application area. With comparing theoretical framework and data which have been dealt with coupling international alliances and interest groups, it is purposed for strengthening the research question of study. States as an important actor of international area and their interest dividedness have been focused with special approach for clarifying the problem of cyber conflicts. An idea about the arguments of cyber security studies and with the concept of theory in similar states like Turkey, constitutes the base of approach in this study. Keywords: International Relations, International Security, Cyber Security, Cyber Politics, Cyber Deterrence