What Cyber is (not) doing to International Relations
At the international scale, cyber seems to be pervasive, though it is rarely mentioned in the International Relations. The ubiquitous nature of the cyber is not compliant with the classical criteria of the international (territorialization, legal framework, etc.). This leads to hinder the understanding of the cyber as a research topic and constitutes an epistemological impediment. By analyzing what the cyber makes – or not – to the International Relations, this article aims to initiate a debate. It deals with the cyberspace as a socio-technical system which gradually globalized to the point of being a major stake for the international system. It reviews and discriminates two options : tackling the cyberspace as one of the technological feature of the international system or addressing it as a system that is more than an issue but a nature per se whose autonomy is limited by the interactions with the international system.