Digital Economy and National Security: Contextualizing Cybersecurity-Related Exceptions

This essay addresses the challenges of digital economy in context cybersecurity threats that have growing implications for national security. It analyzes cybersecurity-related exceptions to international trade rules explore whether and how these protect state's policy space. The argues pre-digital era are too narrowly framed address concerns. is contrast trends new generation agreements create expansive security designed reset balance between These approaches must, however, be carefully guarded against potential abuses.