The normalization of cyber-international relations

Autor(en): Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Herausgeber: Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Reihenherausgeber: Andreas Wenger
Buchtitel: Strategic Trends 2015: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Serie: Strategic Trends
Seiten: 81-98
Verlag(e): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publikationsjahr: 2015
Publikationsort: Zürich

We have arrived in an age of mega-hacks, in which high-impact and highattention cyberincidents are becoming the new normal. The increase in strategically consequential, targeted cyberincidents is met with intensified efforts to reduce the risk of cyberconflict through norm-building, mainly geared towards creating deterrent effects at the state level. While these new developments have an overall stabilizing effect on cyber-international relations, the narrow focus on destructive cyberattacks and on state-to-state relations is creating unintended security-reducing side-effects.

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