International Journal of Cyber Diplomacy / 2020, Volume 1

The Diplomacy of Systemic Governance in Cyberspace

Alexandru GEORGESCU , Adrian Victor VEVERA , Carmen Elena CÎRNU

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Abstract

Cyber has become a cross-cutting issue affecting not just multiple domains, but all domains, both inside and outside the borders of any individual country and the jurisdiction of its legitimate and competent authorities. For this reason, cooperation becomes key in several aspects related to coordination of infrastructure build-up and use, general governance issues like retail crime and privacy, but also security issues, such as the protection of critical infrastructures, the protection against disruptive crime and the governance of inter-state conflict and terrorism issues. Outside of the realm of traditional diplomatic cooperation, we also find and define a systemic governance diplomacy, which is done by experts at the level of institutions and collectives in order to develop and promote standards which become part of the critical information infrastructure landscape. Of course, this is an area that also becomes the theater for inter-state competition.

Keywords

Standards, Cyber diplomacy, Critical infrastructure, Competition