EU Declarations, DDoS Attacks, and the Erosion of Norms and Rules for State Behaviour in Cyberspace

EU Declarations, DDoS Attacks, and the Erosion of Norms and Rules for State Behaviour in Cyberspace

Author(s): Stefan Soesanto
Publisher(s): Real Instituto Elcano
Publication Year: 2022

The geopolitical shift caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in deliberate inconsistencies in EU Member States’ applications of international law governing cyberspace and adherence to the United Nations cyber norms framework. In this Real Instituto Elcano blog, CSS' Stefan Soesanto closely analyzes the public release of two different European declarations (a unilateral one and a collective one) in response to recent DDoS attacks.
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