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This article examines the theoretical foundations of international security and regime theory that lay strict conditions for the creation of international regimes to explain the nature of the cyber conflict and the reasons that prevent the creation of a global regime for cybersecurity. This article analyzes the cybersecurity concerns and interests of the world's leading powers in cyberspace--China, Russia, the European Union, and the United States--based on some key cybersecurity issues in dispute, inter alia, information sovereignty, militarization of cyberspace, and their politics of cyber norms. The article suggests that the absence of a dominant hegemon in the international system, and the perception of cyberspace not only as a domain that increases vulnerabilities and threats, but also as a domain for gaining a strategic advantage, does not meet the theoretical premises for the creation of an international regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past 20 years, efforts have been made to change the rules and procedures in order to strengthen the process of reviewing the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty. However, these efforts have not contributed significantly to promotion of the treaty's goals or a strengthened nonproliferation regime. Reforms implemented in the attempt to bypass what are primarily political and technical obstacles only partially facilitate a review process that is sustainable, effective, and more responsive to developments because they do not bridge the gaps between the nuclear states and the other treaty members. Thus despite the reforms, the perpetuation of the treaty's underlying inequality leaves unchanged the political, legal-normative, and economic challenges that prevent its reinforcement, thereby undermining the stability of the entire regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]