Cybersecurity is creeping in the relations between states. Most nations (in particular the US) are very poorly prepared for what has the potential to be to a certain extent a game changer in international relations. Cybersecurity implies that certain ways to conduct foreign affairs have to be modified. It introduces new threat and new opportunities.

Recent episodes such as Ghostnet, Shadows in the Clouds, Operation Aurora, Stuxnet, Agent.btz, DDOS attacks against Estonia and Georgia, or even the wikileaks, show that cybersecurity is becoming a factor of change in relations between states to contend with. But far too little is understood about this subject to allow any long term strategies let alone international agreements.

Every nation is affected differently and should define a strategy of how to deal with that new component of international relations. This is particularly true for the US which seems asymmetrically affected. It seems to have a strategic disadvantage, as it offers far more targets than any other nations. In this paper we argue that even if each nation is basically a special case and should organize itself differently, collaboration among nations has the potential to make a significant difference as cybersecurity is a complex world and a source of major uncertainty about the future for all of them.