[governance] Sovereignty and the Geography of Cyberspace

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

It of course depends on the country involved. Relatively smaller and poorer countries that engage  non state actors for aggressive behaviour, online or in the physical world, can be punished.  

If the country is one of at least two or three nuclear armed superpowers, and further, loudly denies any sort of state involvement multiple times .. this becomes a lot tougher, and practically certain to lead to a world war.

--srs (iPad)

On 08-Dec-2012, at 2:31, Diego Rafael Canabarro <diegocanabarro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bertrand, thank you for your clarifications. Hopefully, responsible statists will follow that lead.
> 
> Good points, Alejandro.
> That was exactly the scope of my question. Several precedents dealt with by international courts deal with the difficulties of attributions in cases of piracy, genocide and crimes against humanity, etc. The wars in the former Yugoslavia are full of examples of groups displaying elements of government authority in their criminal/unlawful actions. It seems to me that in "cyberstuff" it might be even easier to create fog around responsibility. And what has been produced within the scope of NATO seems to reinforce traditional definitions such as the applicability of article 51 of the UN Charter for assessing legality/illegality of self-defense in case of transboundary harm caused "by one State to another State."
> 
> Regards
> Diego
> 
> 

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