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News and Event Highlights

News and Event Highlights

Strategy and Defense

Cyberspace's role in military power is vociferously debated. But how do these ideas manifest in cyber strategy? In this article, IGP Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative Cofounder Erica Lonergan and coauthor Jacquelyn Schneider trace the development of ideas about military cyber power, with a focus on the US.

Mar 31 2023
Journal of Cybersecurity
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SIPA welcomes former U.S. secretary of state, U.S. senator from New York, and First Lady of the United States on February 1, 2023.

Jan 05 2023
Announcement

Social media is frequently an arena of intense competition among major political actors across the world. In this article, IGP Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative Cofounder Tamar Mitts and coauthors argue that a fruitful way of understanding this competition is as coalitions among key actors and their networks of followers, mapping out networks of narrative alignment and conflict on Pakistani social media and providing important insights into the relationships among the major political parties, military, media, and dissidents. Future research can fruitfully explore the causes and effects of powerful social media coalitions.

Aug 30 2022
Perspectives on Politics
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IGP Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative

Signaling is a core element of international crisis bargaining and coercive diplomacy.  In this article, IGP Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative Cofounder Erica Lonergan and coauthor Shawn W. Lonergan develop a theory of signaling in cyberspace, arguing that, although cyber operations are not particularly well suited as costly signals of resolve or capabilities in the context of coercive diplomacy, they have a distinct utility for signaling to manage escalation risks.

Feb 18 2022
Security Studies
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Online Activism and Mobilization

Over the past decade, a large number of extremist and hate groups have turned to internet platforms to inspire mass violence. Currently, there is little reliable evidence on how such campaigns radicalize targeted audiences, write IGP Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative Cofounder Tamar Mitts and coauthors.

Jan 31 2022
University of Chicago Press
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Online Activism and Mobilization

What explains online radicalization and support for ISIS in the West? Over the past few years, thousands of individuals have radicalized by consuming extremist content online, many of whom eventually traveled overseas to join the Islamic State. This study by IGP Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative Cofounder Tamar Mitts examines whether anti-Muslim hostility might drive pro-ISIS radicalization in Western Europe.

Nov 26 2018
American Political Science Review
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