INTERNATIONAL LAW ASPECTS OF INFORMATION WARFARE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

International Law Aspects of Information Warfare in the Digital Age The exponential increase of information warfare online highlights the need to categorize the wide range of information operations that may fall under this type of activity. This article aims at finding which are the international legal regimes applicable to information operations conducted during wartime and peacetime. Currently, information operations are partially regulated by international law but the growing hybridization of threats to international peace and security, poses the urgency to complete the international legal framework. Therefore, it is necessary both to ascertain if and when information operations reach the warfare threshold, required by the jus ad bellum, and if not, when to declare international responsibility of the State-actor. Specific attention is paid to evaluate the capabilities of information operations to be a new ‘mean or method of war’ under jus in bello. The article concludes by analyzing the defensive legal strategies and by arguing the development of the ‘international law of information