Volume 100, Issue 6, November 2024

This introduction outlines how cybersecurity has developed within International Relations, covering its major biases and proposing a research agenda. It details the special section's efforts to overcome the danger of cybersecurity becoming a siloed and overly technical subfield.

How have cyberconflict studies evolved? Through an analysis of articles from 125 journals, this article traces the field's dominant characteristics, noting its Europeanization and trend towards quantitative methodologies. It presents a policy-relevant middle-ground approach to tackle challenges of global representation and promote interdisciplinarity.

What can a gendered lens do for cybersecurity? The prism of feminist security studies can challenge the militarization of the cyber realm and the simplistic solutions that rely solely on human rights protections. Feminist cybersecurity also unveils often invisible forms of violence and sheds light on the crisis of cyber(in)security.

Despite being well positioned to become a norm entrepreneur in the cyberspace, Denmark has failed to live up to its potential. Here, the country's overlooked internal negotiations point to the important role of civil servants and the restrictions that they face in choosing and changing strategies for norm promotion.

How has the European Union's discourse on sovereignty and reducing external dependencies influenced its approach towards cybersecurity? This article applies a framework of regulatory mercantilism to show how the EU has prioritized security over efficiency in light of growing geopolitical instability.

How do digital technologies contribute to state recognition? WIth reference to the 2020 Israel–UAE Abraham Accords, the cases of cybersecurity cooperation, cloud computing and subsea cables are examined to show how transnational collaboration—and competition—can build momentum for diplomatic recognition.

As an increasingly powerful actor in the technological sphere, China has actively contributed to the development and diffusion of global cyber governance. This study reveals the complex and multidimensional nature of its cyber norms and approaches through the perspective of norm cluster.

The tendency to discuss cybersecurity in national and international security in existential terms inhibits the study of the intricacies of cyber risk logics. This article contends that multiple such logics exist along a continuum and explores two distinct examples through a UK-centred case-study.

States and non-state actors, whether in sending, transit or destination countries, mobilize multiple forms of power in the governance of international migration. This article delves into the specific characteristics of migration power, identifying four distinct types of power as well as the mechanisms through which they operate.

Much like football and the Olympic Games, tennis too is contained within and connected to questions of politics and power. Developing the concept of ‘the circuit’ as a social formation, this article examines three Grand Slam tournaments and shows how key political questions shape the global circuit of tennis.

How did EU leaders justify their support for Ukraine after Russian's invasion in 2022? This comparative analysis of responses from Polish, Czech and German policy-makers focuses on their use of historical analogies during this crisis and demonstrates the prevalence of their own historical traumas over sympathy for Ukraine.

Refuting the widely held belief that open-source equates to ethical, this article reveals that unique ethical dilemmas and harms result from the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) to collect, process and analyse vast quantities of social media data within the secretive intelligence environment.

This article proposes the concept of a ‘travelling’ intersectionality as an alternative to current high-level practitioners' understanding of gender and their expectations of women's participation in peace negotiations.

In recent years international accountability mechanisms have been developed to fill gaps in the multilateral system for protecting civilian populations in cases of violent conflict and mass atrocities. This article describes the formation and characteristics of an emergent ‘human protection transnational legal order’.

This article explains the importance of the recent revival of geopolitical thinker Halford Mackinder's ‘middle tier of states’, proposed in 1919 as part of his heartland thesis. In the context of the Russia–Ukraine war, the necessity and viability of the middle tier has been clear.

A discursive analysis of major international agreements shows how global health security and universal health coverage norms have developed and evolved in tandem. This article traces their respective life-cycles and characterizes these two norm regimes as continuously evolving, closely interlinked and increasingly integrated.

As bio-innovation is increasingly delivered outside conventional scientific institutions and their regulatory remits, science diplomacy through unofficial channels and global South practitioners have been instrumental in countering these emerging techno-regulatory grey areas. This policy paper discusses the implications for institutions and funding.

Collaboration between NATO and Russia in the Arctic Council was halted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but two years later the Arctic 7 states have renewed their engagement with Russia on polar issues. This article weighs the dilemmas these NATO states must confront.