Book/Printed Material Competition and restraint in cyberspace : the role of international norms in promoting U.S. cybersecurity

Title

• Competition and restraint in cyberspace : the role of international norms in promoting U.S. cybersecurity

Summary

• Recent years have seen a mounting concern in the United States over foreign efforts to harm election security or legitimacy through cyber means, increased cyber espionage, and attacks of growing sophistication. The United States has been engaged for almost a decade in international negotiations over agreed normative constraints on such activities, but the prospects for a comprehensive international agreement appear dim. In this report, the authors develop a renewed agenda for utilizing cyber norms to limit destabilizing behavior in cyberspace. To do so, they survey the literature on norms and norm emergence and describe the process by which norms tend to arise. They identify the common and conflicting interests that major states have in cyberspace, summarize the history of intergovernmental and private-sector initiatives on cyber norms, outline the principles governing U.S. policy on the issue since 2007, and survey current proposals for cyber norms. Based on this analysis, the authors propose a bottom-up, "outside-in" approach to promoting cyber norms that would allow the United States to bypass current international disagreements to encourage the development of norms to constrain the most destructive and escalatory forms of cyber aggression.

Names

• Mazarr, Michael J., 1965- author
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2022]

Contents

• Chapter One: The Challenge of Norms in Cyberspace -- Chapter Two: Understanding Norms -- Chapter Three: The Current Status of International Dialogues on Cyber Norms -- Chapter Four: Identifying Next Steps in Cyber Norm Development.

Headings

• -  Cyberspace--Security measures
• -  Cyberspace--Government policy
• -  Cyberspace--Security measures--Government policy--United States
• -  Cyberspace--Security measures--International cooperation
• -  Information warfare--Prevention
• -  Public-private sector cooperation
• -  Cyberespace--Politique gouvernementale
• -  Partenariat public-privé
• -  United States

Notes

• -  Title from PDF document (title page; viewed February 24, 2022)
• -  "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense"
• -  "RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE"
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-102)
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xv, 102 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• U163

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739068

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739068

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739068

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