Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Johnstone, Sukumar, & Trachtman: Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy

Ian Johnstone
(Tufts Univ. - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), Arun Sukumar (Leiden Univ. - The Hague Program on International Cyber Security), & Joel Trachtman (Tufts Univ. - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) have published Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023). The table of contents is here. The volume is available open access. Here's the abstract:

Providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building, this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Multidisciplinary and multinational scholars and practitioners use insights drawn from high-level discussion groups to provide a rigorous analysis of how major cyber powers view multi-stakeholder diplomacy.

Looking at how past cybersecurity initiatives and multi-stakeholder negotiations in other fields illuminate its dynamics, this book will help put states' approaches towards multi-stakeholder cyber diplomacy into perspective, and frame the role of private actors in cybersecurity regime building. Evaluating the most promising institutional arrangements and mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity, this book combines top-down analyses relevant to the design of international cybersecurity regimes with bottom-up case studies, tracing the approaches of important states towards multi-stakeholder participation in cyber diplomacy.