The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip demonstrated that there is an important role for cyberspace and the power that established it. The world has become increasingly dependent on this space in military, banking, governmental information infrastructure, e-commerce, and in communications, navigation, and digital media broadcasting.

Cyberspace has become a driver and mediator of international interactions with their cooperative and conflictual patterns. The first level of power in this level relates to the parties that possess power in light of its spread among non-state actors.