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Chapter 16
The Tallinn Manual
e Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare was writ-
ten by an independent “international group of experts” at the invitation of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre
of Excellence (CDCE). e manual was the product of a three-year project to
examine how existing international law applies to this “new” form of warfare.
e Tallinn manual, in particular, examines the international law that governs
the resort to force by states as an instrument of national policy and the interna-
tional law regulating the conduct of armed conict (this is also known ...