THE LOGIC OF SECRECY: DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE IN TURKEY AND RUSSIA

No Thumbnail Available

Date

2018

Authors

Ünver, Hamid Akın

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Turkish Policy Quarterly

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Abstract

Turkey and Russia have been developing comparable approaches to digital surveillance. The advent of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) and social media platforms have enabled significantly increased systematic state surveillance. From the state's perspective, data-centric digital surveillance is required for two reasons. First, the extent and depth at which terrorist organizations and criminal groups use these platforms for recruitment, logistics, and planning. Second, this trend is driven by a variant of "security dilemma" in which one state's intelligence advantage in digital space renders other states relatively less secure, generating a never-ending momentum of digital surveillance capability investment. Turkish and Russian surveillance regimes have grown as two particularly problematic cases in the wider surveillance literature.

Description

Keywords

Turkish CoHE Thesis Center URL

Citation

2

WoS Q

N/A

Scopus Q

N/A

Source

Volume

17

Issue

2

Start Page

93

End Page

103