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Säkerhetisering av cyber?: En studie om inramningen av cyberhot i svensk politik
Swedish Defence University.
2021 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The following thesis intends to study how cyber security and cyber threats are portrayed in Swedish political discourses on cyber between the years 2015-2021. How the question about cyber security is framed can have a major impact on Sweden’s security- and digitization policy and further, on the population's view of which problems are important and how resources should be allocated. Through qualitative text analysis, more specific discourse analysis, political debate articles and government reports will be analyzed to evaluate how the question about cyber security has been framed as an existential threat and if so, for whom?  The purpose is to investigate whether features of securitization occurs and if the question about cyber security can be defined as securitized. And further, what kind of measures has been proposed as protection against these threats? The study also aims to identify which actors' arguments and problem representations have had an impact. The results show that there has been a securitization move within political cyber discourses and a number of safety features have been proposed or have already taken place. The question about cyber security can therefore be defined as securitized. The results also show that a few numbers of government actors have the privilege to represent the problems and furthermore, decide what actions to take.

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2021. , p. 48
Keywords [en]
cyber security, cyber defense, cyber threat, security policy, securitization
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10633OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-10633DiVA, id: diva2:1631703
Subject / course
Political Science with focus on crisis management and security
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2022-01-31 Created: 2022-01-25 Last updated: 2022-01-31Bibliographically approved

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