National Security Zone in International Cyber Affairs

This article explains how national cyber security interests are entwined into international legal instruments and explains how different interpretation of concepts like freedom of information, international cooperation or the right to privacy can occur under international law. The article discusses the ramifications of governmental approaches to shaping and furnishing the concept of “national security” and concludes that under the circumstances of fragmentation of cyber security related legal instruments and in the absence of detailed agreement on acceptable state behaviour in cyberspace governments have a wide margin of legal discretion when using international legal and policy instruments to impose their national approaches to the balance of freedom and security.