Revisiting past cyber operations in light of new cyber norms and interpretations of international law: inching towards lines in the sand?

Broeders, Dirk; Busser, Els De; Cristiano, Fábio; Tropina, Tatiana

doi:10.1080/23738871.2022.2041061

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“…Many of these policy strategies can be understood as seeking to reinforce what Krasner defined as interdependence sovereignty and are focused primarily on control, both internally and externally. The Russian and Chinese notions of digital sovereignty focus on the control of internal and external information flows (Broeders et al 2019; Creemers 2020; Kurowska 2020). These interpretations of digital sovereignty are usually justified in terms of the people's right to self‐determination and aim to block the interference of quasi‐sovereign tech giants, foreign state intervention and the free flow of information, all of which are considered a threat to regime continuity.…”

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In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions

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Cristiano

Kaminska

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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This article analyses the recent use of European Union (EU) terminology of digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy, aiming to identify tensions between policy considerations of fundamental rights, free market principles and geopolitical concerns. These tensions are rooted in the disparity between the EU's considerable economic and regulatory power in digital matters and its limited mandate and capabilities in foreign policy. The article also explores the translation of the notions of digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy into EU policy. It identifies three important trends in the geopoliticisation of the EU agenda on digital technologies: (1) the instrumental use of ‘classic’ internal market policies to exert geopolitical influence; (2) the imposition of foreign policy imperatives on national markets; and (3) new ‘hybrid’ digital policies that combine internal market concerns, fundamental rights and geopolitical concerns. Ultimately, digital sovereignty has inherent tensions with the EU's normative power in digital issues and may also result in a strategic cacophony.

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In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions

Broeders

Cristiano

Kaminska

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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“…In studying how political actors work to advance ‘rules of the road’ in cyberspace (Broeders et al, 2022; Giles, 2012; Mazanec, 2015; Raymond, 2019), scholars have relied primarily on informal-theoretic, case study, and interpretative methods to develop and evaluate theories. Such approaches have offered valuable insights.…”

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Until consensus: Introducing the International Cyber Expression dataset

Canfil

2024

Journal of Peace Research

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Extant scholarship has until now relied on informal-theoretic, case study, and interpretative methods to assess patterns of norm development in cyberspace. Ideally, these accounts would be complemented with more systematic cross-national and longitudinal empirical evidence. To address this gap, this article introduces the International Cyber Expression Dataset. The dataset includes a corpus of more than 34,000 official expressions of view by states and their authorized representatives regarding the international politics of cyberspace. The article describes the sources of these data and demonstrates the dataset’s usefulness, with an Online appendix containing an exploratory analysis of norm convergence. Future research can leverage the dataset to empirically test questions of theory and policy. For example, the dataset can be used to study how foundational theories of norm diffusion apply to cyberspace. It can also be paired with existing cyber conflict datasets to study the conditions under which state practice influences cyber discourse, and vice versa.

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International Law and Cyber Defense Best Practices: The Way Forward

Pangrazzi,

Muhly

2023

International Series in Operations Research &Amp; Management Science

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Revisiting past cyber operations in light of new cyber norms and interpretations of international law: inching towards lines in the sand?

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions

In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions

Until consensus: Introducing the International Cyber Expression dataset

International Law and Cyber Defense Best Practices: The Way Forward

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