International Law in the face of new medias and spaces in which to develop war: Cyberwarfare

Abstract

International Law has ruled international relations and ways of waging war for centuries. Technological development has expanded the battlefields to cyberspace, a favorable means to escape from any regulatory compliance. In response to the effort of the NATO Center for Cooperative Cyber Defense, with the promulgation of the Tallin 2.0 Manual, and in an exercise of adaptation and reinterpretation, by analogy, of the work of the General Assembly of the United Nations, it is proposed to reflect on problems that must be addressed from International Law and that constitute a risk for democracy and the protection of human rights, to determine normative validity in the face of technological development, the appearance of new weapons, with their capacity of mass destruction, actors in conflicts, such as contractors, and barriers in determining responsibility for the operations committed in this environment.