Применение мер принуждения в ответ на вредоносную деятельность в компьютерных сетях: международно-правовые аспектыCoercive Measures in Response to Malicious Cyber Activities: International Law Aspects

The dissertation offers a comprehensive analytical approach to assessing the legality and effectiveness of individual and collective coercive measures used by States in response to malicious acts in ‘cyberspace’. The analysis is informed, first, by the ‘expository’ tradition in legal research, contemplating study of legal texts and, second, is based on the tradition of methodological approaches usually designated in literature as ‘International Law and Economics’ and ‘International Law and International Relations Theory’. The proposed analytical approach makes it possible to assess not only the formal legality of the applied coercive measures from the perspective of International Law, but also the practical effectiveness of such measures in deterring, preventing and punishing States that misuse information and communication technologies.