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- Title
International cybernormfremme. Hvordan løsnes hårdknuden?
- Authors
JACOBSEN, JEPPE TEGLSKOV
- Abstract
The current expectations of progress in the on-going global debates on the norms for responsible state behavior in cyberspace are low. But why have the international norm negotiations come to a stand-still and the Western coalition's norm promotion strategy failed? And can a small state like Denmark become the norm entrepreneur that pushes the Western norm agenda ahead? Drawing on the norms literature in International Relations, the article locates a key obstacle to progress in the mutual accusation of hypocrisy, which - when directed towards the US and its allies - needs to be understood in the context of the Snowden revelations and the lack of acknowledgement of the intelligence norm that dominates in cyberspace. An emerging Western openness about and nuance in states' use of cyber capabilities provides countries such as Denmark with the opportunity to become the pioneer that develops political clarifications and shares the best practices, and thereby contribute with important and much-needed reference points for other countries. But it requires that the Danish authorities are willing to invest resources in the cyber diplomacy while simultaneously addressing the internal disagreements head-on regarding e.g. how much hackers should be used in the Danish foreign and security policy.
- Subjects
DENMARK; SMALL states; EXPECTATION (Psychology); CYBERSPACE; NATIONAL security; COMPUTER hackers
- Publication
Økonomi & Politik, 2020, Vol 93, Issue 3, p45
- ISSN
0030-1906
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7146/okonomi-og-politik.v93ioktober.122527