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.
BackThe 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.
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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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 -
Tackling the Proliferation of Cyber Intrusion Capabilities
The Pall Mall Process Code of Practice paves the way for strong action against cyber intrusion, but it still has a long way to go.
in: LAWFARE, 04.06.2025 -
Cyber Activity Balance 2024: The European Union in Focus
Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 03/2025, February 2025, 11 Pages
