The Foreign Service Journal, March 2015

76 MARCH 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL “intelligence” extends to cyberespionage and theft of proprietary business and industrial information. A sizable portion of the book covers current U.S.-China relations in the cybersecurity area, but with only general direction for a bilateral resolution. Cybersecurity and Cyberwarfare was published last year, before the U.S. Justice Department brought cyberespio- nage charges against five members of the Chinese military. Beijing retaliated to the Justice move by suspending cybersecu- rity talks with Washington and, report- edly, by increasing its cyberespionage in the United States. Recent U.S.-China meetings seem to have produced noth- ing on cyber. Cybersecurity also affects interna- tional organizations like NATO, which in 2007 found cyberdefense of Estonia (from Russia) to be outside its Article 5 duty of “collective defense” of a NATO member. Whether this policy prevails may depend on future cyberaggression against NATO members. The authors suggest NATO may soon be forced into cyberdefense. Cloud computing, big data and increasingly small, cheap and accurate handheld devices will pose additional challenges for future cybersecurity. This book is a great resource, when combined with other reading and training, as diplomacy becomes more technology-based. It will serve FSOs well as they grapple with these challenges. n Jim Patterson, a retired FSO and AFSA life member, writes on technology from his San Francisco office. He is a member of DACOR and the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He blogs at www.JEPDiplomacy.blogspot.com.