Title: Introduction: Building Trust in Cyberspace

In 2007 Georgetown University established the CyberProject under the auspices of the Institute for Law, Science & Global Security. The CyberProject seeks to hone the Institute’s resources to help policymakers develop a greater understanding of current international cybersecurity issues. On 10 April 2012, the Institute held its second annual international cyber conference entitled, “International Engagement on Cyber: Establishing International Norms & Improved Cyber Security.” Under the direction of the CyberProject and the Institute, we have devoted this second annual special issue of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs to cyber exclusively, and the challenges that societies face as they seek to establish norms of behavior so all may coexist peacefully in this domain. In the pages that follow, participants from the Institute’s second international cyber conference and other leaders, domestic and foreign, lay out their visions for protecting cyberspace and maintaining its stability. (purchase article…)

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Catherine Lotrionete is the Director of the Institute for Law, Science, & Global Security and the CyberProject. She is also an Assistant Visiting Professor of Government at Georgetown University.

Tim Maurer is a research associate in the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a non- resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.