If you'd like to keep track of the latest scholarship in the field of cyber conflict, here's a list of all the articles published in the top 150 Poli Sci journals from Jan 2020 - Jul 2021:
@Prof_J_Branch , "What's in a Name? Metaphors and Cybersecurity" 2021 - On the cyber domain as a foundational metaphor. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
@TobiasLiebetrau & Christensen, "The ontological politics of cyber security: Emerging agencies, actors, sites, and spaces" 2021 - on complex and transformative dynamics of ICT and new actors - cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Lilli, "Redefining deterrence in cyberspace: Private sector contribution to national strategies of cyber deterrence," 2021 - on desirability of private sector contribution to cyber deterrence tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@jeppeteglskov, "Cyber offense in NATO: Challenges and opportunities", 2021 On NATO's role in the cyber domain and ways to adapt. academic.oup.com/ia/article/97/…
@DennisBroeders & @cristiano_fab "Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy" 2021, on international diplomacy on cyber terrorism based on UN dynamics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Calcara &Marchetti, "State-industry relations and cybersecurity governance in Europe" 2021, focuses on role private sector companies in Europe (UK & FR focus) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@egflo @Maxwsmeets "Publicly attributing cyber attacks: a framework", 2021, Provides (policy) framework for state-level public attribution, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Benincasa, "The Case for Cyber ‘Disarmament’ in the European Union" 2021, On the importance of arms control treaties (for the EU). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@william_akoto, "International trade and cyber conflict: Decomposing the effect of trade on state-sponsored cyber attacks" 2021, relationship between cyber ops and trade. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Schandler, Gross and Canetti, "A fragile public preference for cyber strikes: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel" 2021, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@CyberMyri @egflo "Hyper-Securitization, Everyday Security Practice and Technification: Cyber-Security Logics in Switzerland," 2021, case study of Swiss cyber security 'construction' - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
@egflo, "Contested public attributions of cyber incidents and the role of academia" , 2020, On role academia in relation to (public) attribution through 3 cases - Sony Pictures, DNC & NotPetya tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@miltonmueller, "Against sovereignty in cyberspace," `2020, on distinct characteristics of cyberspace, its relationship with to territoriality and sovereignty. academic.oup.com/isr/article-pd…
Wilner, "US cyber deterrence: Practice guiding theory," 2020, Implementation of US deterrence, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@CyberMyri & Wenger, "Cyber security meets security politics: Complex technology, fragmented politics, and networked science" 2021, On the study of cyber security politics (and its future) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@harknett_uc & @Maxwsmeets, "Cyber campaigns and strategic outcomes," 2020, on cyber campaigns below the threshold of armed attack, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@Ilina_Gva, The unexpected norm-setters: Intelligence agencies in cyberspace, 2020, On the intelligence agencies' role as norm setters in the cyber domain tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@DuncanHollis & Finnemore, "Beyond Naming and Shaming: Accusations and International Law in Cybersecurity", 2020, On how accusations offer actors a range of strategic options academic.oup.com/ejil/article/3…
@philutsc et al. "At Home and Abroad: The Use of Denial-of-service Attacks during Elections in Nondemocratic Regimes" 2020, on how elections increase the number of DoS attacks in authoritarian countries journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
@jonrlindsay "Demystifying the Quantum Threat: Infrastructure, Institutions, and Intelligence Advantage," 2020, On the promise of quantum computing, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Schandler, Gross, Blackhouse, Canentti, "Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation - A Multi-Country Survey Experiment," 2020, On whether exposure to cyber terrorism prompt calls for retaliatory military strikes cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Yan, "Bipolar Rivalry in the Early Digital Age," 2020, on the future of US -China rivalry, including the role of cyber ops academic.oup.com/cjip/article/1…
@jeppeteglskov, "Lacan in the US cyber defence: Between public discourse and transgressive practice," 2020, on the constitutive role of transgressive practices for security communities cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Whyte, "Beyond tit-for-tat in cyberspace: Political warfare and lateral sources of escalation online” 2020, On escalation as second-order effect (through US 2016 case study) cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Giacomello, “Research Note: More Bucks, Still No Bangs? Why a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cyberterrorism Still Holds True,” 2020, review last 15 years in cyberterrorism research, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@jamessshires, “Cyber-noir: Cybersecurity and popular culture, 2020, on the incorporation of noir elements in cybersecurity expert discourses, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Barrinha and Renard, “Power and diplomacy in the post-liberal cyberspace.” 2020, On the geopolitics of cyberspace, 2020, academic.oup.com/ia/article/96/…
@leotanczt, "50 shades of hacking: How IT and cybersecurity industry actors perceive good, bad, and former hackers," 2020, on the identities, practices, and behaviors of hackers tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
For an overview of earlier scholarship, here’s my initial review with @rgorwa osf.io/preprints/soca…
There is a lot more great research out there – eg. JoCS, @TXNatSecReview, @CHCyberPolicy, @ccdcoe - not captured based on my search criteria. I might do a separate thread on this at a later point in time.
For my general observations on the latest 'wave' of scholarship:
https://twitter.com/Maxwsmeets/status/1434816398585475072
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