Legality In Cyberspace: An Adversary View - Softcover

Giles, Keir; Monaghan, Andrew; Institute, Strategic Studies

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1312278072 ISBN 13: 9781312278073

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2014

Synopsis

While conflict in cyberspace is not a new phenomenon, the legality of hostile cyber activity at a state level remains imperfectly defined. While there is broad agreement among the United States and its allies that cyber warfare would be governed by existing law of armed conflict, with no need for additional treaties or conventions to regulate hostilities online, this view is not shared by many nations that the United States could potentially face as adversaries. A range of foreign states use definitions for cyber conflict that are entirely different from our own, extending to different concepts of what constitutes online hostilities and even a state of war. This leads to a potentially dangerous situation where an adversary could be operating according to an entirely different understanding of international law to that followed by the United States. In this Letort Paper, Mr. Keir Giles uses Russian-language sources and interviews to illustrate the very distinct set of views on the nature of conflict...

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KEIR GILES is the director of the Conflict Studies Re­search Centre (CSRC), a group of deep subject matter experts on Eurasian security formerly attached to the United Kingdom (UK) Ministry of Defence. Now op­erating in the private sector, CSRC provides in-depth analysis on security issues affecting Russia and its relations with overseas partners. After beginning his career working with paramilitary aviation in the for­mer Soviet Union and Ukraine immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Giles joined the BBC Monitoring Service (BBCM) to report on political and military affairs in the former Soviet space. While at­tached from BBCM to CSRC at the UK Defence Acad­emy, he wrote and briefed for UK and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) government agencies on Russian defense and security issues. Uniquely, he is a double Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of In­ternational Affairs (Chatham House) in London, UK, as well as a regular contributor to research projects on Russian security issues in both the UK and Europe. Mr. Giles’s work has appeared in academic and military publications across Europe and in the United States.
 
ANDREW MONAGHAN is a Research Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK. Additionally, he is the Founder and Director of the Russia Research Network, an independent orga­nization for the generation of information and exper­tise on Russian politics, security, and economic issues based in London. In this capacity, he has served as an expert witness to the House of Commons Foreign Af­fairs Select Committee. Until late 2012, Dr. Monaghan directed Russia related research in the Research Divi­sion of the NATO Defense College in Rome. In this role, he was also the senior researcher on energy secu­rity matters. Prior to that, he held positions as a Senior Research Associate at the Advanced Research and Assessment Group, part of the Defence Academy of the UK, and a Visiting Lecturer in the Defence Stud­ies Department of King’s College, London, the civil­ian academic arm of the Joint Services Command and Staff College at the Defence Academy. Dr. Monaghan holds an M.A. in war studies and a Ph.D. in Russian foreign policy (Russian perspectives of Russia-Euro­pean Union security relations) from the Department of War Studies, King’s College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1312278072
• ISBN 13: 9781312278073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 54