Samenvatting

In this, with high speed developing cyber-environment, malicious cyber operations between States, are a reality, and (public) international law need to address this global challenge. International norms governing States’ cyber operations are absent. There is a growing need on the global and on the regional level for States and organizations to enter into dialogues regarding States’ cyber operations and their impacts on other States. These dialogues must take place in the framework of the United Nations, but also on the academic level in Europe and in the Americas. States in the region will have to take a position with regard to the scope of the applicability of (public) international law to cyberspace operations.