PUBLICATIONS

The Handbook on Cyberdiplomacy offers a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive analysis of the emerging field of cyber diplomacy. During the last twenty years a complex cyber ecosystem has been emerging that is increasingly challenged at various levels, in different domains and by a variety of actors. Core issues range from cyber (dis)- information warfare and frequent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure to sophisticated cybercriminals penetrating systems for income or simply securing rights online. Such challenges are not only of a strictly technical nature, but have also important social, economic, legal and geopolitical implications. This broad policy agenda can neither simply be addressed by states alone nor by traditional diplomats that practice or engage in negotiations over securing cyberspace, whether this is in relation to regulations, norms, rules or indeed technologies that can provide security and preserve fundamental rights and freedoms on the Internet. Developments in practice and in theory require more complex conceptualisation and understanding of cyber diplomacy: of what it is, of who practices it where and how? The Handbook seeks to contribute to the wider question on how cyber diplomacy might have affected and changed the tools and approaches of diplomacy itself and might influence the study of diplomacy in the future.

Cydiplo will publish a Journal Special Issue on Cyber Diplomacy. This will contain articles authored or coauthored by senior and junior scholars (within the network and invited) and will engage with the overarching topic of how different disciplines understand and can explain developments in cyber diplomacy. The Special Issue will incorporate contributions from international relations, political science, behavioural science, computer science and law. It is due to be published in the Hague Journal of Diplomacy in a December 2024 issue.

HANDBOOK

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Emerging Field of Cyberdiplomacy in Theory and Practice

Part I: Conceptual Foundations & Theoretical Perspectives

• Chapter 1: Diplomatic Studies/Foreign Policy Analysis
• Chapter 2: Security Studies and International Relations
• Chapter 3: Cyber Power and Cyber Diplomacy
• Chapter 4: International Law/Legal Studies
• Chapter 5: Business Studies and Cyber Diplomacy
• Chapter 6: Psychology Perspectives on Cyber Diplomacy
• Chapter 7: Technical Perspectives on Cyber Diplomacy
• Chapter 8: Critical approaches – Non-Western and Non-Traditional IR/Diplomacy/Legal Perspectives
• Chapter 9: Gender and Cyber Diplomacy

Part II: Key Issues for Cyber Diplomacy and Cyber Diplomats

Chapter 10: Cyber Norms

Chapter 11: Internet Governance

Chapter 12: Human Rights, Democracy and Privacy in Cyberspace

Chapter 13: Cyber war(fare), Cyber Espionage and Cyber Conflict

Chapter 14: Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure

Chapter 15: Cybercrime

Chapter 16: Diplomacy, Geopolitics and Technology Development

Chapter 17: Capacity Building and CBMs

Chapter 18: Disinformation

Part III: Actors perspectives on Cyber Diplomacy

Chapter 19: State Diplomats

Chapter 20: Intelligence agencies and the Military

Chapter 21: (Large) corporations, business and network operators

Chapter 22: Non-State Actors (Third Sector /Academics)

Part IV: State Actor Approaches to Cyberdiplomacy

Chapter 23: USA

Chapter 23: Brazil

Chapter 25: China

Chapter 26: Singapore

Chapter 27: Japan and South Korea

Chapter 28: New Zealand and Australia

Chapter 29: South Africa

Chapter 30: Russia

Chapter 31: United Kingdom

Chapter 32 France and Germany

Chapter 33 Estonia and the Netherlands

Chapter 34 Saudi Arabia and UAE

Part V: Semi-formal, Multi-stakeholder and non-governmental fora

Chapter 35: ICANN and the Internet Governance Forum

Chapter 36: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace

Chapter 37: Track 1.5/2 Cyber Diplomacy

Chapter 38: Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and the Meridian Process

Part VI: International and Regional Organizations and Cyber Diplomacy

Chapter 39: European Union (EU)

Chapter 40: NATO

Chapter 41: ARF/ASEAN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

Chapter 42: Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Caribbean Community

Chapter 43: African Union (AU)/ECOWAS

Chapter 44: Gulf Cooperation Council

Chapter 45 The United Nations

Chapter 46 The OSCE and OECD

Part VII: Conclusion

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Theorising European Approaches to Cyberdiplomacy

Chapter 2: Towards a European Culture of Cyberdiplomacy: Coherence and Cohesiveness in EU Cyber Policy

Chapter 3: The European Union’s Approach to Global Cyberdiplomacy: Capacity Building and Interregionalism

Chapter 4: Europe’s Cyber Diplomacy in the Indo Pacific – Digital Alliances and the Rise of China

Chapter 5: EU Cyber Diplomacy and Emerging Technologies: Contestation and Cooperation