Abstract
Cyber security topics have been part of national defence discourses for more or less the past thirty years. With a growing number of cyber attacks originating in one state and targeting another, cyber security has slowly entered the agenda of international community as well.
The discussion has mainly been concerned with technology and technical solutions, but as the topic has gained greater attention, it is now being addressed by the world of international diplomacy. Nowadays, the role of cyber security in diplomacy has become so important that the term "cyber diplomacy" has come into global use, and countries are even deploying their own "cyber diplomats".
Given how new these terms are, the goal of this report is to map the landscape of cyber security and cyber diplomacy in the Czech Republic, Germany, France, and the EU and explore how those three states and the EU approach science diplomacy in the cyber realm. The cases briefly touch upon the historical background and explore the landscape of stakeholders.
Later, they illustrate governance in practice, that is, how the optimal theoretical set of governance arrangements is reflected in practice. Finally, the report offers a meta-perspective of science diplomacy in the area of cyber security and identifies common features of the cases studied.