ABSTRACT
Transnational cybercrime is a complex threat that has stimulated a bloom in legal regulation in recent years. As a basic analysis of the regimes according to the international relations schools of realism, institutionalism and liberalism suggests, the differences and similarities between approaches can be attributed to the legal arrangements and political preferences of their signatories and key participating states. Furthermore, the transnational regulatory issues faced by these regimes can be seen, like other branches of transnational criminal law, as examples of how Westphalian states are using traditional legal and political tools to address novel threats.
