Until consensus: Introducing the International Cyber Expression dataset

Extant scholarship has until now relied on informal-theoretic, case study, and interpretative methods to assess patterns of norm development in cyberspace. Ideally, these accounts would be complemented with more systematic crossnational and longitudinal empirical evidence. To address this gap, this article introduces the International Cyber Expression (ICE) Dataset. The dataset includes a corpus of more than 35,000 official expressions of view by state actors regarding the international politics of cyberspace. The article describes the sources of this data and demonstrates the dataset’s usefulness, with an appendix containing an exploratory analysis of norm convergence. Future research can leverage the dataset to empirically test questions of theory and policy. For example, the dataset can be used to study how foundational theories of norm diffusion apply to cyberspace. It can also be paired with existing cyber conflict datasets to study the conditions under which state practice influences cyber discourse, and vice versa. (Please cite the original publication: Canfil, Justin Key (2024). Until consensus: Introducing the International Cyber Expression dataset. Journal of Peace Research, 61(1), 150-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231217656)

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是国际网络表达（ICE）数据集，包含超过35,000条国家行为体关于网络空间国际政治的官方观点表达记录，旨在填补网络空间规范发展研究中系统性跨国纵向实证证据的空白。它可用于验证规范扩散理论在网络空间的应用，并与现有网络冲突数据结合分析国家实践与网络话语的相互影响。