Cyber power and strategy
Learn how states build, wield, and project cyber power in an increasingly competitive digital world. This category investigates the underlying realities behind global cyber power rankings, including how superpowers, large military alliances, and “middle-ground” states develop offensive and defensive strategy and tactics in different ways.
You’ll analyze key case studies to understand how new theoretical approaches have influenced how states deploy cyber operations on the ground, and how cyber strategy in intelligence and military spheres interacts with broader national cyber policy concerns.
China, cybersecurity, and technology
Cyber operations in theory and practice
NATO cyber operations and cyber policyChina, cybersecurity, and technology
This topic traces the development of Chinese cyber power and cyber policy, putting its rise in the context of a broader US-China technology rivalry while examining how Beijing thinks about the limits of sovereignty in cyberspace.
The U.S. and China ‘Tech Cold War’
Vulnerability research and disclosure in China
Cybersecurity and cyber operations in China
China, technology, and geopolitics
The making of China’s digital power: from patriotic hackers to cyber capability
Cyber operations in theory and practice
This topic builds a rigorous, practitioner-informed understanding of how cyber operations actually work through country profiles, technical case studies, and consistent conceptual clarity.
NATO cyber operations and cyber policy
This topic traces how NATO thinking on cyber operations has evolved over the last decade, and assesses honestly how far cyber operations have been successfully integrated into member state militaries and the alliance overall.