Research Cluster Cybersecurity and Digital Policy
The use of digital technologies is an important instrument of power in international politics, creating completely new foreign and security policy challenges and changing existing conflict constellations. For the SWP, it is precisely the combination of regional with technical expertise that is important in this context. The research cluster provides an institutional framework to enable a regular exchange on dealing with these issues within the SWP.
Divisional management
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Areas of Expertise
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
- Digital Policy and Cyber
- EU foreign policy
- European Union
Projects
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Areas of Expertise
- Cyber-security
- Defence and security policy / Armed forces
- Digital Policy and Cyber
- Technology policy
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Areas of Expertise
- Cyber-security
- Digital Policy and Cyber
- Internet Governance
- Technology policy
Members of the Research Cluster
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Areas of Expertise
- Crisis management
- European Union
- Justice and Home Affairs in the EU
- Migration policy
- Political system of the European Union
- Terrorism
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Areas of Expertise
- Digitalisation, cyber, technology
- Cyber-security
- Digital Policy and Cyber
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Areas of Expertise
- Bangladesh
- India
- Indo-Pacific
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- South Asia
- Sri Lanka
- BRICS
- Cyber-security
- Defence and security policy / Armed forces
- Digital Policy and Cyber
- G7/G20 and similar
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Areas of Expertise
- Space policy
Projects
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Areas of Expertise
- United States
- Transatlantic relations
- United Nations
Projects
Information on current publications of the research cluster can be found in the dossier “Digitalisation – Cyber – Internet”: The Role of the Digital in International Politics.
Publications
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An Achilles Heel of Today’s Armed Forces
Managing Software Supply Chain Risk in the Military Sector
SWP Research Paper 2025/RP 06, 17.11.2025, 35 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025RP06
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Europe’s Cybersecurity Depends on the United States
Europe Can and Must Do More
SWP Comment 2025/C 44, 05.11.2025, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025C44
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EU Cyber Posture: Why Cyber Deterrence does not work (yet)
Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 07/2025, August 2025, 20 pages -
The Cyber Normative Power of the Factual – How State Practice Shapes Cyber Norms
The Case of Official Public Political Attribution of Cyber Operations
in: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung, Forschung DSF No. 67, August 2025, 37 Pages -
Hand and Glove: How Authoritarian Cyber Operations Leverage Non-state Capabilities
An Integrated Understanding of Both Is Required to Recalibrate Political and Legal Responses
SWP Comment 2025/C 30, 26.06.2025, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025C30
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SWP-WebMonitor Cybersicherheit und Digitalpolitik Nr. 3/2025
10.06.2025, 22 Seiten
