The lessons learned from COVID-19 are not only about virology. The pandemic has intensified the dilemma between human and material values in national politics and reiterated the ibtter contestation over the world order. In this paper, Mika Kerttunen, Eneken Tikk,, and Helen Eenmaa discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics and policymaking, as well as data movement, public services, and the role that the pandemic played in shaping (inter)national attitudes, especially among small states.
In this research paper, Mika Kerttunen argues that while cyber operations may be relatively ineffective for conducting war, their peacetime employment can contribute to the outbreak of conflict due to their violent nature.
In this report, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerstin Zettl-Schabath present the HD-CY.CON cyberconflict dataset and shed light on autocratic and democratic use of proxies in cyberspace.
One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Matthias Schulze and Mika Kerttunen put certain assumptions about the utility of cyber operations during wartime to the test.