| Summary/Abstract |
This summer, a nearly seven-year process to write the rules that should guide state activity in cyberspace came to a halt. Since 2010, the United States had successfully corralled the world’s main cyber powers at the United Nations to agree to a set of increasingly prescriptive norms of what they could and could not do in cyberspace. The process broke down over the United States’ desire to have states explicitly endorse the notion that the laws of war applied to cyber conflict.1 Russia, China, Cuba and others refused to do so, on the grounds that it would give a green light to hostile actions in cyberspace.
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