State Cybersecurity Cooperation Profiles with Maritime Indicators

A 2026 study by Jevon Dixon maps cross-national cybersecurity cooperation patterns using maritime risk and connectivity indicators. It applies principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering to group states based on governance, economic capacity, ICT development, and maritime activity. The analysis uses V-tests to show how structural country profiles are associated with varying levels of cybersecurity cooperation activity.

Use Cases

• Apply principal component analysis to governance, economic capacity, and ICT development indicators to identify latent structural profiles among states.
• Use hierarchical clustering on maritime activity indicators to group countries with similar cybersecurity cooperation potential.
• Perform V-tests to analyze the statistical association between identified country clusters and levels of cybersecurity cooperation activity.
• Conduct a case study analysis using maritime connectivity and maritime cyberthreat exposure data to model incentives for international cooperation.

Strengths

• Analysis is grounded in a multi-dimensional framework incorporating governance, economic, ICT, and maritime activity indicators.
• Methodology employs principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering for robust state profiling.
• Findings are validated using V-tests to show significant associations between structural profiles and cooperation levels.

Limitations

• The underlying dataset's specific row count, column names, and sample data are unavailable for direct verification or replication.
• Geographic and temporal coverage of the source data is not specified, limiting generalizability.
• Analysis focuses on state-level actors, potentially overlooking sub-state or non-state cybersecurity cooperation dynamics.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering applied to cross-national indicators of governance, economic capacity, ICT development, and maritime activity.

Freshness

Last updated in March 2026.