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Cyber security and international cooperation : Cyber security와 국제협력

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Authors

임보영

Advisor
신성호
Major
국제대학원 국제학과(국제협력전공)
Issue Date
2013-02
Publisher
서울대학교 대학원
Description
학위논문 (석사)-- 서울대학교 국제대학원 : 국제학과(국제협력전공), 2013. 2. 신성호.
Abstract
This work aims to analyze the stances of U.S. and China on cyber security, which is nowadays one of the most important international issues, thereby discussing the
possibility and form of international cooperation in global governance of the cyberspace and against cyber threats. To illustrate the importance and uniqueness of this issue, this paper discusses the attributes of the cyberspace and what cybersecurity means. The global nature of the cyberspace has blurred the traditional distinction between the concept of war and crime, thus has made international cooperation indispensable in dealing with cybersecurity issues. In addition, states relied on hard (codified) international law in order to enable long-standing international cooperation in traditional security issues, such as arms control agreements. Also, unlike traditional security issues, in which states were the main actors, cybersecurity involves a wide variety of actors including non-state actors. Although states and international actors should commit to cooperation with non-state actors as well, current discourse on cybersecurity reveals that most states perceive cybersecurity as a critical area of national security, so states are still the major actors in
the international cooperation of cybersecurity. The United States and China are the two major influential players in international affairs, and both have very different views on what cybersecurity is and how it should be achieved. This stance difference, along with the discourse in the United Nations General Assembly First Committee which points towards international legal issues such as national sovereignty as the next focal issue in the third Group of Governmental experts, are examined under the analytical framework based on Abbot & Snidal (2000)s work on hard and soft international law. This paper concludes that international cooperation on cybersecurity is more likely to depend on soft international law, thereby increasing the role of soft international law in international governance.
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/129193
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