A New Cybersecurity Diplomacy: Are States Losing Ground in Norm-making?

... information technologies that have posed challenges to the security of states has brought some new actors to the table for talks on cyber norms and responsible behavior in cyberspace. Over the past twenty years, states have made many attempts to reach a compromise ... ... military superiority, but also commit illegal acts, the assessment of which is ambiguous from the point of the application of international law, since the mechanism for such cases has not yet been developed. Nevertheless, states don’t stand away from threatening with the use force in response to cyberattacks. While the problems of reliable technical attribution of cyberattacks have not been solved, we observe cases of political ...