TY - JOUR ID - 63111 TI - Cyber-attacks and the Principles of International Humanitarian Law (Case Study: Cyber-attacks on Georgia) JO - Public Law Studies Quarterly JA - JPLSQ LA - en SN - 2423-8120 AU - Esmailzadeh Mollabashi, Parastou AU - Abdollahi, Mohsen AU - Zamani, Seyed Ghasem AD - Ph.D. Student in International Law, Department of Law, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Najafabad, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor, International Law Department, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 47 IS - 2 SP - 537 EP - 559 KW - Armed Conflict KW - Cyber Warfare KW - principle of distinction KW - Principle of Proportionality KW - Principle of Neutrality KW - Principle of Military Necessity KW - Georgia DO - 10.22059/jplsq.2017.63111 N2 - 21st century is the beginning of change in one of the areas of International Law namely the law of armed conflicts. Access to new weapons, technological developments and resorting to today’s tactics, not only lead the insidious phenomenon of war to be totally departed from International Law but by some recent changes, more complexities are added. The conflict and its forms that were primarily being accepted in traditional international law as a principle in International Relations and in the light of subsequent developments of various legal instruments were accepted as an exception in states relations, with the development of technology, have been transformed significantly faster than the conceptual evolution in rights and obligations. Conceptual evolution in the use of force not only has changed the fundamental concepts and principles of conflict but also the elements of traditional conflict and propounded subjects including principle of distinction, legality and legitimacy. With analyzing the concept of cyber warfare, we intend to assess the possibility of extending the rules governing traditional armed conflicts to cyberspace and evaluating its legal limitations. Since this matter would not be possible without concentrating on international practice, cyber-attacks on Georgia will be examined as a case study.  UR - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_63111.html L1 - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_63111_1c7b66f90fdbf12264868d5d082629af.pdf ER -