The Proliferation of Cyberwarfare Capabilities and Interstate War, Redux: Liff Responds to Junio

摘要

Timothy Junio's response to Thomas Rid's and my articles1 represents precisely the kind of progressive scholarship from which the nascent international relations/security studies literature on cyber-related issues stands to benefit. I thank him for the opportunity to respond to his critique, and I applaud the editors of this journal for their continuing support of scholarship related to the important topic of cyberwarfare. Junio's response contains two major criticisms of my June 2012 article in this journal: First, he takes issue with an alleged contention that 'cyber "war" has never happened and probably will not happen'.2 Second, he argues that a 'central problem' with my argument is that I 'do not commit to a theoretical framework regarding the causes of war'.3 Below, I address each of these criticisms in turn.