The Journal of Cyber Policy will provide a unique place for scholars and practitioners to address emerging cyber policy challenges, which are growing in scope and urgency as countries around the world are becoming increasingly dependent on digital networks. Decision-makers in the public and private sectors are grappling with the security challenges posed by this inter-dependence and are often at a loss for informed and rigorous thinking.
The policy issues that emerge from our interconnected digital world are inherently international, and the journal will draw upon a geographically and culturally diverse set of contributors. The journal will place a strong emphasis on topics that are international in scope, and can address national and international cyber policy challenges.
The challenges of the cyber world are cross-disciplinary, and the journal will reflect this in the range of contributions that it solicits. The list of disciplines includes: politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, public administration, law, outer space security, military sciences, and media studies and communication. Topics of particular interest will include cyber warfare, cyber crime, internet governance, implications of emerging technologies such as autonomous weapons and quantum computing, internet access, the growing societal dependence on digital connectivity, and balancing the demands of personal privacy and national security.
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Editor: Emily Taylor, Associate Fellow, Chatham House
Co-Editor: Joyce Hakmeh, Chatham House
Associate Editors:
Georgia Cole, Chatham House
Julia Cournoyer, Chatham House
Chair of the Editorial Board: Dr Patricia Lewis, Chatham House
Editorial Board:
Dr Rasha Abdulla, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, The American University in Cairo (Egypt) Pablo Bello, Director of Public Policy for Latin America at WhatsApp (Brazil) Subimal Bhattacharjee, Independent Consultant on Cyber Security and Defence, New Delhi (India) Professor Richard Dasher, Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center, Stanford University (US) Dr Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Deputy for Research and Teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS); Senior Lecturer for Security Politics at ETH Zurich. (Switzerland) Anriette Esterhuysen, Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group; Senior advisor global and regional internet governance, Association for Progressive Communications (South Africa) Dorothy K. Gordon, Technology and Development Specialist (Ghana) Professor Phillip N. Howard, Director, Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, Balliol College, University of Oxford (UK) Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis, Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation (Geneva) Alexandra Kulikova, CISO IT & Security Regulatory Watch Manager with Euroclear (Belgium) Dr Cathy Mulligan, Honorary Senior Researcher at UCL, member of IET Digital Panel (UK) Professor Sir David Omand GCB, Visiting Professor War Studies Department, King’s College London (UK) Dr Sarah Roberts, Associate Professor, UCLA; Co-Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (US) Douglas Taylor, Senior Research Analyst, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK) Professor Motohiro Tsuchiya, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University (Japan)
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