Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles

‘Donetsk Don’t Tell – “Hybrid War” in Ukraine and the Limits of Social Media Influence Operations’. Journal of Information Technology & Politics 0, no. 0 (14 May 2023): 1–16. (with Alexei Abrahams, Peter Pomerantsev, and Volodymyr Yermolenko). https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2211969.

“Subversion, Cyber Operations, and Reverse Structural Power in World Politics”, European Journal of International Relations, 16 August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661221117051.

“A New and Better Quiet Option? Strategies of Subversion and Cyber Conflict”, Journal of Strategic Studies 0, no. 0 (27 July 2022): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2022.2104253.

“The Subversive Trilemma – Why Cyber Operations Fall Short of Expectations”, International Security 2021; 46 (2): 51–90. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00418

“A Tale of Two Cybers – How Threat Reporting by Cybersecurity Firms Systematically Underrepresents Threats to Civil Society.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 18, no. 1 (June 11, 2020): 1–20. (with Ron Deibert and Jon Lindsay). https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2020.1776658.

Op-Eds

The Subversive Trilemma in Cyber Conflict and Beyond. Lawfare (blog), 3 August 2022.

Infiltrate, Exploit, Manipulate: Why the Subversive Nature of Cyber Conflict Explains Both Its Strategic Promise and Its Limitations, Lawfare (blog), 12 July 2022.

“There is no ‘Cyber Shock and Awe’ – Plausible Threats in the Ukrainian Conflict”. War on the Rocks. Feb 2022

“Digital Disinformation – Evidence From Ukraine”, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, No. 278, February 2021. https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/CSSAnalyse278-EN.pdf

“Shaping Not Signaling: Understanding Cyber Operations as a Means of Espionage, Attack, and Destabilization.” International Studies Review, no. viaa086 (November 3, 2020). (with Florian Egloff) https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaa086.

“Persistent Engagement Neglects Secrecy at Its Peril.” Lawfare (blog), March 4, 2020. https://www.lawfareblog.com/persistent-engagement-neglects-secrecy-its-peril.