Dispute Between Countries, a Corresponding Attack on Cyberspace

Abstract

Today, cyberspace is a fact of daily life, and cyberspace's impact has not bypassed states' national security. Cyberspace, a manmade technological advancement over the past decades, transformed the way economies work around the world, reshaping social interactions and a paradigm shift in politics. Cyberspace being boundaryless, omnipresent across multiple domains, and anarchic has been considered to attack whenever there are any disputes between two countries. In the context described above, a pressing question arises. Cyberspace is not a domain like land, water and air, and it is an environment inhabited by information and knowledge, existing in electronic form. If cyberspace is a mere inhabitation of information and knowledge, why do states want to consider cyberspace as an arena for confrontation in any dispute between countries? This chapter proposes discussing this new phenomenon, looking into the evaluation and analysing aspects of the recent phenomenon.