Journal Article
Constructing Norms for Global Cybersecurity
Martha Finnemore and Duncan B. Hollis
The American Journal of International Law
Vol. 110, No. 3 (July 2016), pp. 425-479
Published
by: Cambridge University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5305/amerjintelaw.110.3.0425
Page Count: 55
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Topics: Cybersecurity, Cyberspace, Treaties, Computer law, Normativity, International cooperation, Socialization, Government regulation, Governance
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Abstract
Efforts to design cybersecurity norms have focused on content: the behaviors that norms require or prohibit. But design must also be informed by insights into how such norms actually work. Drawing on extensive social science research, this article examines cybersecurity norms as social norms—the processes by which norms form, spread, and create effects in the world—and shows how those processes ultimately feed back on themselves to shape norms' content. These insights are used to understand the challenges of cybersecurity and to generate guidance and cautions, with particular attention to the strategic tradeoffs involved, in constructing new cybersecurity norms.
Copyright 2016 American Society of International Law
