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GUIDE TO CORE CONCEPTS

Recall the four domains of CyberIR@MIT :

  • Cyber-IR Domain, defined as the intersection of international relations and cyberspace and consists of the key layers of the Internet and the levels of analysis in international relations – and their intersection.
  • Governance & Institutions, represents the supportive properties and mechanisms that buttress the Cyber-IR reality. These mechanisms of governance are designed to stabilize societies.
  • Conflict & War, captures the multiple pressures and threats that can result in social damage & fundamental destruction.
  • Cybersecurity & Sustainability capture cyber-driven threats, modes of response & their various features, as well as the support for & threats to system stability & resilience over time.

Each domain is differentiated in dimensions.

This guide presents the ontology at high levels of aggregation for each of four system-domains. This view highlights only the first and second levels of the concept hierarchy for each domain beyond the basic dimension definition.

See also Knowledge Architecture .

HIgh level, integrated view of the Domains and Dimensions is shown  in the Overview Figure.

Domains are identified at the center of the Figure. The Dimensions for each domain are displayed in the color-identified concentric circles. The entries in the Figure represent the first level of each dimension for the individual domains.