# Erik Gartzke
**Domain:** International security / Cyber conflict
**Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node
**Maturity:** Developed
**Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]]
## Definition
**Erik Gartzke** is a political scientist whose “Myth of Cyberwar” argument questions whether cyber capabilities independently produce the coercive and destructive effects often attributed to war.
## Significance
His work is a major counterweight to totalizing cyberwar rhetoric.
## Sources
- [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]
- [Primary or institutional source](https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/38/2/41/12098/The-Myth-of-Cyberwar-Bringing-War-in-Cyberspace)
## Routes
[[wiki/Thomas Rid|Thomas Rid]] · [[wiki/Cyber War Will Not Take Place|Cyber War Will Not Take Place]] · [[wiki/Brandon Valeriano|Brandon Valeriano]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]