ABSTRACT
Although state authorities around the world are trying to counter and deflect digital attacks from abroad, they are also projecting their own power externally through open electronic networks. The systemic outcome today is well-described as mutual entanglement. Mounting evidence suggests that efforts to bring digital networks back under territorial control are undercut by operations designed to use those networks for domestic surveillance and external security. In the end, re-territorialization strategies in cyberspace are self-limiting. The mutual entanglement characteristic of cyberspace today profoundly complicates state strategies aimed at either anarchical fragmentation or unquestioned hegemony (where rules are set by a dominant power).
