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    Hacking minds and machines - Foreign interference in the digital era

    This Chaillot Paper delves into foreign interference and the risk it poses to democratic societies. It explores the interplay between information manipulation and disruptive cyber operations, revealing their role as complementary components within a broader strategy.

    Chaillot Papers
    2 August 2024 Edited by: Nad’a Kovalčíková
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    From cyber to hearts and minds

    This brief examines how Cyber Influence Operations (CIOs) blend the use of cyber force with strategic interference in the Human Domain. It argues that CIOs are akin to 'dirty bombs' in cyberspace, where their initial 'blast' disrupts infrastructures through cyberattacks before...

    Briefs
    8 November, 2023 By: Viola Fee Dreikhausen, Andrea Salvi
  • A language of power?

    This Chaillot Paper examines the evolution of the EU’s cyber defence policy and analyses the role of cyber defence within the Union’s broader security strategy.

    Chaillot Papers
    1 November 2022 Edited by: Patryk Pawlak, François Delerue
  • International cyber capacity building: global trends and scenarios

    This report identifies four trends in cyber capacity building and extrapolates their development to explore four potential scenarios that can inform capacity builders’ strategic decision making.

    Analysis
    23 September 2021 By: Robert Collett, Nayia Barmpaliou, Patryk Pawlak
  • Green digital diplomacy

    The environmental impact of digital consumption and new technologies calls for globally sustainable data practices. This Brief argues that embracing ‘green digital diplomacy’ represents a strategic opportunity for the EU’s foreign and security policy to exercise influence in an...

    Briefs
    13 September, 2021 Edited By: Patryk Pawlak, Fabio Barbero
  • African Futures 2030

    Among the multiple possible futures for Africa, this publication has selected a favourable one, leading to integration, peace and prosperity.

    Chaillot Papers
    9 March 2021 Edited by: Giovanni Faleg
  • Cyber conflict uncoded

    The complex nature of cyber conflicts makes it difficult to design effective, targeted conflict prevention instruments. Yet existing approaches to prevent conflict in cyberspace have, so far, brought about very little change in state behaviour. How might the EU lead the way in...

    Briefs
    17 April, 2020 By: Patryk Pawlak, Eneken Tikk, Mika Kerttunen
  • Guardian of the galaxy: EU cyber sanctions and norms in cyberspace

    This Chaillot Paper – which uses space exploration as a metaphor to demystify some of the concepts and challenges linked to cyber-related policymaking – focuses on the EU’s cyber sanctions regime.

    Chaillot Papers
    31 October 2019 Edited by: Patryk Pawlak, Thomas Biersteker
  • EUISS Yearbook of European Security 2019

    The 2019 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2018 that were significant for European security and charts major developments in the EU’s external action and security and defence policy.

    Books
    18 July 2019 By: Daniel Fiott
  • Hacks, leaks and disruptions – Russian cyber strategies

    What role do cyber operations play as an instrument of Russia’s coercive diplomacy? This Chaillot Paper explores how Russia’s increasingly assertive behaviour in cyberspace has lent new urgency to the debate about cybersecurity in the West.

    Chaillot Papers
    23 October 2018 Edited by: Nicu Popescu, Stanislav Secrieru

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