The Implications of International Law for State Sovereignty in Handling Cross-Border Cybercrime

Yoan Barbara Runtunuwu

doi:10.64924/cseyfs18

Penulis

Yoan Barbara Runtunuwu Universitas Negeri Manado Penulis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.64924/cseyfs18

Kata Kunci:

Implications, International Law, State Sovereignty, Handling Cross-Border, Cybercrime

Abstrak

This research examines the implications of international law for state sovereignty in handling cross-border cybercrime, a phenomenon that increasingly challenges the territorially bounded assumptions underlying the traditional international legal order. The study aims to analyze how existing jurisdictional principles, the emerging concept of cyber sovereignty, and current international legal instruments interact in shaping states' capacity to investigate and prosecute cybercrime that spans multiple jurisdictions, while identifying the gaps that remain in reconciling sovereignty protection with effective cross-border enforcement. A qualitative approach is employed through normative legal research based on a literature study, drawing on primary legal materials such as international conventions and legal instruments, alongside secondary materials including scholarly books and journal articles, which are analyzed using statutory and conceptual approaches. The findings reveal that traditional jurisdictional principles are strained by the borderless character of cybercrime, that cyber sovereignty simultaneously protects and complicates cross-border cooperation, and that existing instruments such as the Budapest Convention and the Tallinn Manual 2.0 provide necessary but insufficient frameworks for reconciling these tensions. The study concludes that a more integrated, enforcement-oriented international legal framework is needed to balance sovereignty protection with the practical demands of prosecuting transnational digital crime.

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