Stability, Attribution, and Third Parties in Cyberspace

• In Event: Formal Models of Diplomacy and Conflict

Abstract

Sabotaging an enemy creates positive externalities for third parties. As such, these third parties have incentives to disrupt international cooperation, since the breakdown of relations between two countries redounds to their benefit. While this problem exists in many forms of warfare, it is most pronounced in cyber, where the attribution problem and the multiplicity of small actors make the danger severe.

Authors

• Richard Pell Jordan, Baylor University

• Robert F. Trager, UCLA