GRADUATE STUDENT, MELISSA GRIFFITH, PUBLISHES REPORT ON CYBER CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

What is the state of the field of cyber conflict within the fields of international relations and international security? Where should those hoping to push forward discussion and promote an understanding of the strategic dynamics of cyberspace focus their intellectual energy and efforts? These were a couple of the questions posed in a new report by Melissa Griffith, CLTC grantee and Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley, and Adam Segal, Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. The paper, “International Security and the Strategic Dynamics of Cyber Conflict” was released by the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) as part of its 2017 Cyber Conflict State of the Field (SOTF) conference and paper series. This second annual SOTF workshop brought together experts from various academic disciplines, including political science, law, economics, and policy research, to define key questions and map the research frontier in the emerging field of cyber conflict studies. Together, the papers represent the conference attendees’ understanding of the present state of the field in the academic study of cyber conflict. Read the paper.