Peacetime Regime for State Activities in Cyberspace – Free Download From NATO CCDCOE

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn,
Estonia, has released a 746 page book entitled, Peacetime Regime for State Activities in Cyberspace. A description of the book as well as a separate review of it are offered on CCDCOE’s website.  “The publication covers in a multi-disciplinary approach the technical, legal, policy and diplomacy aspects of State activities in cyberspace during peacetime. It consists of 23 chapters of academic nature, elaborated by 24 authors specialised in the respective areas of expertise.”

The book is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD in either PDF format, here, or in eBook format, here.  You can also purchase a hardcopy.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 – Introduction to Cyberspace – Sociological Facets and Technical Features
State Actors and Their Proxies in Cyberspace Back-Tracing and Anonymity in Cyberspace
Technical Defence Methods, Tools, Techniques and Effects
Technical Methods, Techniques, Tools and Effects of Cyber Operations

Part 2 – Rights and Obligations of States in Cyberspace
General Principles of International Law as Applicable in Cyberspace
Territorial Sovereignty and Integrity and the Challenges of Cyberspace
Non-Intervention in the Cyber Context
Cyberspace and State Obligations in the Area of Human Rights
International and Regional Telecommunications Law
Space Law and Unauthorized Cyber Activities
Legal Protection of Civil and Military Aviation against Cyber Interference
Protecting Critical Submarine Cyber Infrastructure: Legal Status and Protection of Submarine Communications Cables under International Law
E-diplomacy and Diplomatic Law Implications
Cyber-Espionage – New Tendencies in Public International Law
International Economic Law in the Cyber Arena
Customary Rules of International Environmental Law
Responsibility of States and International Organizations in the Context of Cyber Activities with Special Reference to NATO

Part 3 – State Interaction and Counteraction in Cyberspace
Cyber Diplomacy: Agenda, Challenges and Mission
Confidence Building Measures for Cyberspace
International Cyber Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
Economic and Political Coercion and a Rising Cyber Westphalia
Freedom and Security in Cyberspace: Shifting the Focus away from Military Responses towards Non-Forcible Countermeasures and Collective Threat-Prevention
Cyber Activities and the Law of Countermeasures