Cyber-espionage in international law : silence speaks / Thibault Moulin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moulin, Thibault, author.

Series:

Melland Schill studies in international law.

Melland Schill Studies in International Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberterrorism--Law and legislation.

Cyberterrorism.

Internet and terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Thibault Moulin is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Lyon and a Research Associate at the Federmann Cyber Security Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves as a Captain in the Reserve (RC) of the French Air and Space Force.

Summary:

While espionage between states is a practice dating back centuries, the emergence of the internet revolutionised the types and scale of intelligence activities, creating drastic new challenges for the traditional legal frameworks governing them. This book argues that cyber-espionage has come to have an uneasy status in law: it is not prohibited, because spying does not result in an internationally wrongful act, but neither is it authorised or permitted, because states are free to resist foreign cyber-espionage activities. Rather than seeking further regulation, however, governments have remained purposefully silent, leaving them free to pursue cyber-espionage themselves at the same time as they adopt measures to prevent falling victim to it. Drawing on detailed analysis of state practice and examples from sovereignty, diplomacy, human rights and economic law, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current legal status of cyber-espionage, as well as future directions for research and policy. It is an essential resource for scholars and practitioners in international law, as well as anyone interested in the future of cyber-security.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

Introduction to Part I

1. Main notions

2 Methodological and conceptual frameworks

Part II: The rules connected to territorial integrity

Introduction to Part II

3. Territorial sovereignty

4. Collective security law

5. The law applicable between belligerent States

6. The law applicable between belligerent and non-belligerent States

Conclusion to Part II

Part III: The rules disconnected from territorial integrity

Introduction to Part III

7. The law of diplomatic relations

8. International economic law

9. International human rights law

10 State practice

11. Opinio juris

Conclusion to Part III

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526168023

OCLC:

1381125011