Guardian of the Galaxy? Assessing the European Union’s International Actorness in Cyberspace. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 1/2021.
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2021

This paper aims at demystifying the international actorness of the European Union (EU) in cyberspace by assessing the extent to which the EU possesses sufficient capabilities to become a global cyber-power. For this purpose, the analysis relies on a kinetic approach based on the evaluation of four intertwined criteria: it first assesses the domestic features of the EU’s cyber-actorness (resilience and coherence) to be able to further determine the characteristics of the EU’s international cyber-