CYBERDEFENSE REPORT The Law of Neutrality in Cyberspace

warfare in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries Following it, the main sources of the law of neutrality were also pivotal for the development of neutrality and became, and still are, the 1907 Hague Conventions V the slow expansion of the rules attached to it. [...] This changed with the 1919 Covenant of the government secretly adopted controls over the export League of Nations and the 1928 Separate General Treaty of strategic goods to the Soviet bloc similar to those for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National adopted by the member states of the Coordinating Policy (a.k.a. [...] Thus, according to modern Namibia Advisory Opinion of the International Court of State practice, the applicability of the law of neutrality Justice, which has a clear judicial assertion that the law depends on functional considerations that often result of neutrality continues to be in force: “If the provisions in a differential or partial applicability of that body of of the Charter concerning co. [...] reaffirmed the continued survival of neutrality as “an The primary legal function of the law of established part of the customary international law.”21 neutrality is to regulate the relationship and co- Secondly, the terms neutral and non- existence between the belligerents in an international belligerent22 have been regularly used in recent armed conflict and States that are not party to the codi. [...] Cyber operations and the Law of Neutrality, in in any form on the side of the insurgents under the customary principle Cyber operations and the use of force in international Law, Oxford of non-intervention.