Recent Trends in UN Cybersecurity Governance and South Korea-EU Cooperation

This chapter discusses why the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications process has reached a turning point. It argues that the discussion about how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) should be regulated is as much about strategy, politics, and ideological differences as it is about law. For the time being, states have too diverging interests and normative preferences to reach consensus on anything but the most basic of legal findings. This chapter also offers some suggestions about what the future holds with regard to the regulation of cyberspace. It argues that the deadlock of the UNGGE process is likely to lead to a shift away from ambitious global initiatives towards regional cooperation between like-minded countries. In this regard, it delineates how to facilitate South Korea-EU cooperation in the context of governance and norms building.