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The international cybersecurity regime has evolved mainly through informal arrangements, and conspicuously in the absence of treaties/formal cooperation. The 2024 Special Issue of Contemporary Security Policy CSP Journal investigates the many dimensions of such informality -🧵

The contributions to the special issue look at governance of cybercrime (@jamesshires), strategic narratives and ad hoc settings (Andre Barrinha & Rebecca Turner (𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳)), governance preferences of authoritarian states (Mark Raymond & Justin Sherman), and non-state actos (Josephine Wolff)

Please consider applying to be part of an early-career workshop for scholars of International Relations theory. The deadline is 25 February, and application instructions are available in the link below. If you know an early-career researcher, please feel free to share!

NEW: U.S. Department of State announces new measures to target those involved in spyware abuses Visa restrictions will be levied on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware 👇 state.gov/announcement-o…

Open access is a great reason to submit to InternatlTheory — with ISA annual conference starting this week, please feel free to ask me or @DavidAWelch about the journal, as we will both be there!

What happens when ‘digital’ and ‘sovereignty’ meet and become a (geo)political agenda for Europe? In our new article in JCMS, Kristin Eggeling and I analyze the discursive ambiguity of digital sovereignty. Our case is the cloud project Gaia-X doi.org/10.1111/jcms.1…

As I scooped last week wired.com/story/cisa-cyb… CISA is right now announcing its secure-by-design pledge: cisa.gov/securebydesign… youtube.com/watch?v=aT1I8G… 60+ companies — including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Akamai Technologies, Cisco, HP, IBM, & @Scale_AI — committing to 7 key practices.

Just out in Nature Human Behaviour 🥳 Do interventions against #misinformation help, or do they come with undesired effects? Both! Our findings suggest current strategies increase skepticism in otherwise trusted pieces of information Link to full paper 👉 rdcu.be/dKmXg

White House touting international work to protect industrial tech from cyberattacks: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… Jake Sullivan Archived highlights G7 commitment to create global OT cyber framework, as well as industry support for DOE's supply chain cyber principles energy.gov/sites/default/…

New open access article with Ole Willers, looking at the emergence of the market for digital surveillance and why it has been so hard to control. Hopefully relevant to anyone interested in spyware, surveillance, or economic security states more broadly. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Big news from Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. We are hiring for FOUR new positions. If you're interested in working at the intersection of #technology and #security (with a little bit of #wargaming in the mix) here at the University of California, Berkeley, join us:

DHS says CISA’s test of AI vulnerability detection methods (required by Biden’s AI EO) determined that “the best use of AI for vulnerability detection currently lies in supplementing and enhancing, as opposed to replacing, existing tools.” dhs.gov/news/2024/07/2…

CSP Vol.45 No.3 is now published! Read the articles on #NATO, #cyber and #nuclear here, all #openaccess: 👉tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/45/…

Multilateralism is usually considered a cornerstone of liberal cyber governance, but as Mark Raymond and Justin Sherman explain, there is a rising authoritarian strain. Explore this topic and implications for the changing shape of the cyber landscape: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We have a new, terrific H-Diplo, with RJISSF roundtable on Rohan Mukherjee much-celebrated book, Ascending Order, w/thoughtful comments by Lora Viola @DrIanHall Michelle Murray @lincolnhines Manjeet S. Pardesi: networks.h-net.org/group/discussi… Glad to have commissioned the discussion, which Lora perfectly sums up:

Honored to be shortlisted with such a terrific group, and for a piece with Justin Sherman that I’m very proud of.

Very grateful to be nominated by CSP Journal for the 2025 Bernard Brodie Prize.

Undersea cables are the backbone of the Internet and the lifelines of global communication. We are proud to announce the New York Principles on Undersea Cables today at #UNGA79, which will strengthen digital infrastructure and uphold int’l best practices for undersea cable

The #UN prepares to pass a controversial cybercrime treaty, signalling a shift toward authoritarian control of the internet and forcing democracies into difficult choices. Read more from Mark Raymond and Justin Sherman on Binding Hook. bindinghook.com/articles-hooke…

Greatly appreciate any help #IR folks here can give us in rebuilding the followers for the International Theory journal account, InternatlTheory which was mysteriously disrupted on this platform.