New Publication | Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy
19 Sep 2023

New Publication | Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy

Publication

Edited volume, available open access, edited by Ian Johnstone, Arun Sukumar, and Joel Trachtman, providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building, this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of multi-stakeholder diplomacy.

Providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building, this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Multidisciplinary and multinational scholars and practitioners use insights drawn from high-level discussion groups to provide a rigorous analysis of how major cyber powers view multi-stakeholder diplomacy.

Looking at how past cybersecurity initiatives and multi-stakeholder negotiations in other fields illuminate its dynamics, this book will help put states' approaches towards multi-stakeholder cyber diplomacy into perspective, and frame the role of private actors in cybersecurity regime building. Evaluating the most promising institutional arrangements and mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity, this book combines top-down analyses relevant to the design of international cybersecurity regimes with bottom-up case studies, tracing the approaches of important states towards multi-stakeholder participation in cyber diplomacy.

With a wealth of policy-relevant findings, this book will be welcomed by practitioners and scholars of international law, international organization and international cybersecurity as well as multi-stakeholder governance and multilateral regimes. Policymakers and diplomats involved in international cybersecurity processes will also benefit from its cutting-edge comparative analysis of the approaches of key cyber powers.

Download the edited volume in open access here via Elgar.

Contents

Part I: Introduction

  • Chapter 1: Building cybersecurity through multistakeholder diplomacy: Politics, processes, and prospects, by Ian Johnstone, Arun Sukumar and Joel Trachtman

Part II: Thematic Issues

  • Chapter 2: The geopolitics of multistakeholder cyber diplomacy: A comparative analysis, by Arun Sukumar
  • Chapter 3: Multistakeholder characteristics of past and ongoing cybersecurity norms processes, by Josephine Wolff
  • Chapter 4: Developing multistakeholder structures for cybersecurity norms: Learning from experience, by Joel Trachtman
  • Chapter 5: Implementing cybersecurity norms: The design of international institutions, by Ian Johnstone

Part III: Country Perspectives

  • Chapter 6: U.S. multistakeholder engagement in cyber stability issues, by Christopher Painter
  • Chapter 7: Russia’s participation in multistakeholder diplomacy for cybersecurity norms, by Andrey Shcherbovich
  • Chapter 8: Rethinking Chinese multistakeholder governance of cybersecurity, by Jinhe Liu
  • Chapter 9: India’s “passive” multistakeholder cyber diplomacy, by Arindrajit Basu
  • Chapter 10: Brazil and multistakeholder diplomacy for the Internet: Past achievements, current challenges and the road ahead, by Carlos Affonso de Souza and Christian Perrone
  • Chatper 11: Taking stock of Estonia’s multistakeholder cyber diplomacy, by Marina Kaljurand

Part IV: Conclusion

  • Chapter 12: The way ahead for multistakeholder cyber diplomacy, by Ian Johnstone, Arun Sukumar and Joel Trachtman

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