Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace (Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology)

This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace.

Over the past three decades, cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However, scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in cyberspace has been produced along somewhat rigid disciplinary boundaries and an even more rigid sociotechnical divide – wherein technical and social scholarship are seldomly brought into a conversation. This is the first volume to address these themes through a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary approach. With the intent of exploring the question ‘what is at stake with the use of automation in international conflict in cyberspace through AI?’, the chapters in the volume focus on three broad themes, namely: (1) technical and operational, (2) strategic and geopolitical and (3) normative and legal. These also constitute the three parts in which the chapters of this volume are organised, although these thematic sections should not be considered as an analytical or a disciplinary demarcation.

This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-conflict, AI, security studies and International Relations.

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Fabio Cristiano is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Studies at Utrecht University, where he teaches in the MA in Conflict Studies & Human Rights and the Minor in Conflict Studies. He is an Associate Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security at Leiden University and holds a PhD in Political Science from Lund University.

Dennis Broeders is a Full Professor of Global Security and Technology at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the Senior Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security and project coordinator at the EU Cyber Direct Program.

François Delerue is an Assistant Professor of Law and a member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Law and Automation (Lawtomation) at IE University. His book Cyber Operations and International Law was published in 2020.

Frédérick Douzet is a Professor of Geopolitics at the University of Paris 8, Director of the French Institute of Geopolitics research team (IFG Lab) and Director of the Center Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE). She has been a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2022 and a member of the French Defense Ethics Committee since 2020.

Aude Géry is a Post-doctoral Fellow at GEODE. She also co-chaired the Committee on Digital Challenges for International Law set up for the 150-year anniversary of the International Law Association.