The Dimensions of States Obligation to Cooperation in Establishing Rules in Response to Cyber Terrorism

Cyber terrorism as a potential danger threatens all governmtnts all over the world and its characteristics create serious violations of international peace, security and human rights. On the other hand, its different committement from classic terrorism has established fundamental challenges in the field of jurisdiction, crime detection, extradition and punishment of the perpetrators. Therefore, a phenomenon that has a cross-border nature cannot be fought and suppressed by national measures and requires organized cooperation with the serious efforts of subjects of international law. These cooperations have wide dimensions, the first and most important aspect of which is the effort to establish rules in the fight against cyber terrorism.

The research method in this article is descriptive-analytical and the method of collecting information is library-based, referring to documents, books and articles. First, the parctices of some leading institutions in the field of policy-making in the fight against cyber terrorism will be studied in a descriptive manner and then with an analytical method, criteria for future effective measures will be presented from these actions and practices.

Ethical Considerations: 

In this research, the principles of trustworthiness, honesty, neutrality and originality of the work have been observed.

Due to the problem of terrorism in all its types, the ease of committing cyber attacks, creating terror and its severe consequences compared to classical terrorism, organizations ranging from the United Nations to regional organizations, groups and the subgroups have take several measures in their agenda in order to realize effective and diligent cooperation among their members, from criminalization to detection, extradition and punishment of criminals. In international efficiency analysis conducted by international organizations, factors such as the status of rules with preventive features and criminalization and implementation of rules by international cooperations and coordination should be taken into consideration.

According to the study conducted on the procedure of international and regional organizations in fulfilling the commitment of governments to cooperate in establishing rules in response to cyber terrorism, it is noteworthy that regional organizations with a security approach such as NATO have had significant success compared to the United Nations.