10.3 Ethics and Inter-State Relations in the Cyber Domain

When we turn to international relations (IR), we confront the prospect of cyber warfare. The malevolent actors are primarily rogue nations, terrorists, and non-state actors (alongside organized crime). The reigning theory of conflict in IR generally is Rousseau's metaphorical extension of Hobbes from individuals to states: the theory of international anarchy or 'political realism'. There is one...