Building an International Cybersecurity Regime

Multistakeholder Diplomacy

Edited by Ian Johnstone, Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, US, Arun Sukumar, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Hague Program on International Cyber Security, Leiden University, the Netherlands and Joel Trachtman, Professor of International Law and Henry Braker Professor of Commercial Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, US

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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.

‘This book thoughtfully unpacks the complex web of multistakeholder cyber diplomacy even as its parameters, participants, and paradoxes continue to evolve.’
– Elina Noor, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, US

‘Essential reading for states and stakeholders engaged with the geopolitics of cyberspace, this expertly edited volume offers readers a descriptive catalog for how multistakeholder cyber diplomacy has interacted with—and travelled alongside—rising multilateral mechanisms for global governance of cybersecurity while identifying various next steps for making multistakeholderism more effective in securing cyberspace’s future.’
– Duncan B. Hollis, Temple University School of Law, US