Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy

20NATO’S EVOLVING CYBER SECURITY POLICY AND STRATEGY

Scott N. Romaniuk, Alexander Fotescu and Mihai Chihaia

Introduction

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is adapting and adjusting its thinking, political, economic, technological, and innovative processes to new challenges. As before it used to look primarily at the Soviet Union and at the global “War on Terror” (WOT), now it begins to move toward a more forward-looking defense posture, with an emphasis on new geographies – Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia – but also with domain-specific engagement like in the realm of the electromagnetic spectrum and cyber, space, quantum, and increasingly non-kinetic and non-hard power, those traditionally regarded as the purview of ...