ABSTRACT
In the last two decades, Israel established itself as a leading actor in the global arena of cybersecurity governance, strategy, and industry. Different elements contribute to Israel's national success in cybersecurity, and this chapter maps them through a critical perspective on the country's conflation of military and civilian governance and technologies. Benefiting from a highly interconnected military-industrial complex (see, Swed & Butler, 2013), Israel constitutes an exceptional case to rethink the existing correlation between military expenditures and economic growth. The overall consensus in macroeconomic studies asserts, in fact, that high military spending has a negative impact on a country’s aggregated economic performance. Operationalizing considerable public/private financial investments, the Israeli integrated governance model has escorted Israeli companies to the acquisition of a stable leadership in the global market of cybersecurity products. Israeli headship in the market of cybersecurity contributes to fostering transnational collaborations with international allies and their markets (such as the United States and its market).
