Cyber-attacks and the Principles of International Humanitarian Law (Case Study: Cyber-attacks on Georgia)

Esmailzadeh Mollabashi, Parastou; Abdollahi, Mohsen; Zamani, Seyed Ghasem

doi:10.22059/jplsq.2017.63111

Authors

¹ Ph.D. Student in International Law, Department of Law, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Najafabad, Iran

² Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor, International Law Department, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2017.63111

Abstract

21^st 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.

Keywords

20.1001.1.24238120.1396.47.2.12.4

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Volume 47, Issue 2
July 2017
Pages 537-559

Cyber-attacks and the Principles of International Humanitarian Law (Case Study: Cyber-attacks on Georgia)

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Volume 47, Issue 2July 2017Pages 537-559

Volume 47, Issue 2
July 2017
Pages 537-559