Governments can help reduce the risk to financial stability by explicitly committing their countries to refraining from using offensive cyber tools that could undermine financial stability.
It is vital to the stability of the international system to prohibit the corruption of data in the global financial system, and to strengthen a comprehensive norm to this effect.
The international community has finally started a serious conversation about norms in cyberspace. But reaching a global consensus needs the world’s attention.
Interest in cybersecurity in the context of international relations has never been greater.
States use proxies to project power through cyberspace, some capable of causing significant harm. But there is a lack of clarity on what, exactly, the term ‘proxy’ means.
The absence of proper rules to regulate escalation and retaliation in cyberspace has a potentially destabilizing impact on global security.
Following the September meeting of the UN Group of Governmental Experts and latest events, cybersecurity norms are at a crossroads.
In the wake of the agreement between President Obama and President Xi, there’s a bigger strategic discussion that will continue to play out around the future of the internet and the issue of sovereignty.
Even though the progress on cybernorms over 2015 was sudden, that success had in fact been built on the years of hard work by diplomats, cyberexperts, and many others.
There is growing empirical evidence that new technologies are being sold by companies in North America and Europe to customers in countries that use them to violate human rights.