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From Rising Power to Cyber Influencer? : China's Norm Entrepreneurship in Global Cyber Governance through Cyber Sovereignty and Multilateralism Unraveling China’s Impact on Kenya's Domestic Regulatory Framework
Schaffer, Berit (2023) From Rising Power to Cyber Influencer? : China's Norm Entrepreneurship in Global Cyber Governance through Cyber Sovereignty and Multilateralism Unraveling China’s Impact on Kenya's Domestic Regulatory Framework.
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| Abstract: | The fragmentation of global cyber governance is prevailed by powerful states that attempt to persuade norm regulation favoring their national interest. This paper scrutinizes China’s role in global cyberspace as a rising economic power attempting to contest Western hegemonic structures and promulgate its model of cyber governance. Hereby, the theoretical framework of the Norm life cycle is utilized to analyze China’s norm entrepreneurship. Specifically, the paper refers to the concepts of Chinese cyber sovereignty and multilateralism. Kenya is selected as a case that heavily cooperates with China in infrastructure projects to explore its regulatory framework. Qualitative content analysis is applied to analyze Kenyan policy documents to investigate the extent of China’s influence on domestic cyber regulations and Kenya’s behavior in global cyber governance. The analysis provides the main findings of Kenya’s strive to emancipate and strengthen its independence from external influence through enacting domestic data and cyber security regulations that are adapted to the Chinese model of cyber sovereignty to a certain extent. Globally, China and Kenya pursue divergent motives steered by distinctive incentives that disprove the alignment with Chinese multilateralism. The findings allude that Kenya’s driving force of participation in global cyber governance is the enhancement of economic growth. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 88 social and public administration |
| Programme: | Management Society and Technology BSc (56654) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96115 |
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