The conception of state sovereignty in the context of use of cyberforce
Journal Title: Альманах міжнародного права - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue
Abstract
The paper explores the issues concerning execution by states of their sovereign rights within cyberspace. Recent years has shown vulnerability of all states to the cyber attacks. This put on an agenda the need for establishment of an ability of international law to respond to cyber attacks; within the prism of the concept of non-armed force the Author proposes to qualify such attacks as the use of cyberforce. Firstly, at the present stage of development of international law, a normative prohibition on the use of non-armed cyberforce is not established in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. Given the nature of realization of non-armed measures by the states, the Author suggests the hypothesis that the international legal prohibition of the latter follows from another basic principle of international law – the principle of the prohibition of intervention in matters which are within the domestic jurisdiction of any state (the principle of non-intervention). Since it is closely linked to the concept of state sovereignty, there is an urgent necessary to establish the existence of sovereign rights in cyberspace. To this effect, the Author investigates the legal nature of cyberspace in order to find out whether it is possible to consider the principle of non-intervention as an international legal ground for the prohibition of the use of cyberforce. As a result, the Author points out that states can not exercise sovereignty over cyberspace as a virtual environment, because it is a legal fiction as an object of legal regulation. At the same time the Author proves that states have sovereign rights over their cyber infrastructure, as well as the responsibility to control this infrastructure and to prevent it from deliberate use in order to harm other states. Such conclusion gives reasons to suggest that state sovereignty refers to cyberspace, so the principle of non-intervention can be explored as a norm prohibiting the use of cyberforce.
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І. І. КАМІНСЬКИЙ
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