Dr. Matthias Schulze

Dr. Matthias Schulze


Research Division: International Security
Deputy Head of Research Division

matthias.schulze(at)swp-berlin.org

2018 Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellow at German Public Policy Institute

2017 Research associate at German Institute for International and Security Affairs

2012 – 2017 PhD Thesis at FSU Jena, »From Cyber-Utopia to Cyber-War. Normative Change in Cyberspace«

2012 - 2017 Research associate and Ph.D. student at International Relations Department Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Ph.D. thesis: From Cyber-Utopia to Cyber-War. Normative Change in Cyberspace

2015 Research Visit at Citizen Lab, University of Toronto

Personal Website: https://percepticon.de/

Areas of Expertise:

Cyber-security, Defence and security policy / Armed forces, Digital Policy and Cyber


SWP Publications (selection):

Matthias Schulze, Daniel Voelsen

Digital Spheres of Influence

in: Barbara Lippert, Volker Perthes (eds.)
Strategic Rivalry between United States and China

Contributions to Research Papers 2020/RP 04, April 2020, 53 Pages, S. 30-34
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Matthias Schulze

Cyber Deterrence is Overrated

Analysis of the Deterrent Potential of the New US Cyber Doctrine and Lessons for Germany’s “Active Cyber Defence”

SWP Comment 2019/C 34, August 2019, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C34

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Annegret Bendiek, Raphael Bossong, Matthias Schulze

The EU’s Revised Cybersecurity Strategy

Half-Hearted Progress on Far-Reaching Challenges

SWP Comment 2017/C 47, November 2017, 7 Pages
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Matthias Schulze

Encryption under Threat

As states across the globe weaken cyber-security, Germany should oppose the trend

SWP Comment 2017/C 31, August 2017, 4 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

Matthias Schulze

Cyber in War: Assessing the Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Utility of Military Cyber Operations

In: T. Jančárková, L. Lindström, M. Signoretti, I. Tolga, G. Visky (eds.), 2020 12th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, Tallinn: NATO CCDCOE Publications, 2020
Matthias Schulze

Where Does Cyber Defense Stop and Offense Begin?

In: Moving Beyond Cyber Wars: A Transatlantic Dialogue, AICGS Policy Report 68, pp. 24-28, 2018
Matthias Schulze

Clipper Meets Apple vs. FBI – A Comparison of the Cryptography Discourses from 1993 and 2016

in: Media and Communication, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 54–62 (2017)
Matthias Schulze, Florian Ries

Social Network Analysis in Inter-Organizational Relations

in: Rafael Biermann/Joachim A. Koops (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics. Palgrave (2016)
Matthias Schulze

Patterns of Surveillance Legitimization: The German Discourse on the NSA Scandal

in: Surveillance & Society 13, No. 2 (2015), pp. 197-217

In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

Matthias Schulze

German Military Cyber Operations are in a Legal Gray Zone

In: Lawfare Blog, 08.04.2020 (online)
Matthias Schulze, Sven Herpig

Germany Develops Offensive Cyber Capabilities Without A Coherent Strategy of What To Do With Them

In: Council on Foreign Relations, 03.12.2018 (online)

SWP Comments

Dominic Vogel
German Armed Forces Approaching Outer Space

The Air and Space Operations Centre As a Gateway to Multi-domain Operations

Wolfgang Richter
Attack on the Open Skies Treaty

President Trump Wants to Withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty

SWP Research Papers

Anja Dahlmann, Marcel Dickow
Preventive Regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems

Need for Action by Germany at Various Levels

Hanns Günther Hilpert, Oliver Meier (eds.)
Facets of the North Korea Conflict

Actors, Problems and Europe’s Interests