... Are States Losing Ground in Norm-making?
Most business initiatives hinge on the fact that they all call for developing confidence-building measures and rules of conduct in the digital space. Besides, the business community welcomes the need to adjust international law to the new realities of the digital economy.
Private sector initiatives can perfectly be streamlined with initiatives put forward by countries within the framework of the UN. After all, by and large, governments pursue the same goals ...
... transnational actors from private sector and civil society and their recognition as full-fledged participants in international relations by the latest neo-theories of IR, they were still not seen as actors capable of formulating and consolidating norms of international law for any of the fields.
Today most of the powerful states are evading the development and signing of any legally binding agreements on cyber norms, as it will impose legal responsibility for the violation of obligations.
The emergence of new information technologies that have posed challenges to the security of states has brought some new actors to the table for talks on cyber norms ...
