ABSTRACT
As the international cybersecurity debate searches for new directions, more attention should be paid to regional approaches to cybersecurity. This chapter looks at the influence on the Africa and Latin America’s cybersecurity approaches by bodies like the European Union, the Council of Europe, and countries like China, Russia, and the United States. At home, China’s own 2017 cybersecurity law reflects China’s ongoing ambitions for both control of the Internet and dominance of the domestic cybersecurity market. In 2014, during the 34th ordinary session of the Organization of American States (OAS), a resolution titled ‘The Inter-American Integral Strategy to Combat Threats to Cybersecurity’. Outside of joint OAS resolutions and strategies, one of the main areas in which this regional approach has been expressed is the creation of a regional network of national Computer Emergency Response Teams, and the preparation of national cybersecurity strategies.
