
The State of Cyber Arms Control: An International Vulnerabilities Equities Process as the Way to go Forward?
- 1 January 2020
- Schulze, Matthias
- EN
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Although the threat of cyber conflict is rising at the moment, not much ground has been gained with cyber arms control regimes. In this article, Matthias Schulze analyses proposals for cyber arms control, modelled after traditional arms control regimes. He finds that challenges of the digital domain, issues of regime verification and the lack of political will are big inhibitors in transferring these to the cyber domain.
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