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Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology

About the Book Series

The Studies in Conflict, Technology and Security series aims to publish challenging studies that map the terrain of technology and security from a range of disciplinary perspectives, offering critical perspectives on the issues that concern publics, business and policymakers in a time of rapid and disruptive technological change.

24 Series Titles


The Co-evolution of Technology and Warfare Reshaping the Battlefield

The Co-evolution of Technology and Warfare: Reshaping the Battlefield

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Tracey German, Fotios Moustakis, Andrew N. Liaropoulos
September 30, 2025

This book explores the relationship between technology and warfare, by examining how recent technological advancements have revolutionized the conduct of war. The work analyses contemporary conflicts, including the Syrian civil war, the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, and the ongoing war in ...

Cybersecurity in Latvia Forging Resilience amidst Emerging Threats

Cybersecurity in Latvia: Forging Resilience amidst Emerging Threats

1st Edition

Edited By Mihails Potapovs, Kate E. Kanasta
July 31, 2025

Drawing on expertise from professionals, government officials, and academics, this book uncovers the proactive measures taken by Latvia to build resilient cybersecurity capabilities. The work offers a comprehensive exploration of Latvia’s cyber domain, structured around three overarching themes: ...

Digital (Dis)Information Operations Fooling the Five Eyes

Digital (Dis)Information Operations: Fooling the Five Eyes

1st Edition

Edited By Melissa-Ellen Dowling
January 28, 2025

This book offers an interdisciplinary insight into the key debates around information warfare in the digital age and argues that transnational cooperation can mitigate the threat. States and societies are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-enabled information operations. From efforts to divide ...

Creativity in Military Complexity Design, Disruptors and Defence Forces

Creativity in Military Complexity: Design, Disruptors and Defence Forces

1st Edition

By Cara Wrigley, Murray Simons
December 16, 2024

This work offers a groundbreaking exploration of the urgent need for creativity and innovation in contemporary military thought. In an era characterised by the ceaseless flux of global dynamics, traditional paradigms of warfare have become increasingly obsolete. The pursuit of victory no longer ...

Theorising Cyber (In)Security Information, Materiality, and Entropic Security

Theorising Cyber (In)Security: Information, Materiality, and Entropic Security

1st Edition

By Noran Shafik Fouad
December 02, 2024

This book argues that cybersecurity’s informational ontology offers empirical challenges, and introduces a new interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual framework of ‘entropic security’. Cyber-attacks have been growing exponentially in number and sophistication; ranging from those conducted by ...

Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace

Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace

1st Edition

Edited By Fabio Cristiano, Dennis Broeders, François Delerue, Frédérick Douzet, Aude Géry
November 28, 2024

This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace. Over the past three decades, cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However, scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in ...

Understanding the Military Design Movement War, Change and Innovation

Understanding the Military Design Movement: War, Change and Innovation

1st Edition

By Ben Zweibelson
October 04, 2024

This book explains the history and development of the military design movement, featuring case studies from key modern militaries. Written by a practitioner, the work shows how modern militaries think and arrange actions in time and space for security affairs, and why designers are disrupting, ...

Military Design Thinking An Historical and Paradigmatic Analysis

Military Design Thinking: An Historical and Paradigmatic Analysis

1st Edition

By Aaron P. Jackson
September 30, 2024

This book examines the newly emergent field of military design thinking, how it has been developed inside and outside of military doctrine, and the paradigms that underlie its key thinkers and methodologies. From the emergence of its initial methodologies in the late 1990s, military design thinking...

Technology and Governance Beyond the State The Rule of Non-Law

Technology and Governance Beyond the State: The Rule of Non-Law

1st Edition

Edited By Nicole Stremlau, Clara Voyvodic Casabó
September 30, 2024

This book explores how information and communications technologies are adapted, governed, and reinterpreted in areas where the state has limited reach. The governance and regulation of new technologies, from social media to AI, has never seemed more urgent. Efforts to harness the potential benefits...

Fifth Generation Warfare Dominating the Human Domain

Fifth Generation Warfare: Dominating the Human Domain

1st Edition

By Armin Krishnan
March 11, 2024

This book outlines the concept of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) and demonstrates its relevance for understanding contemporary conflicts. Non-kinetic modes of attack and war waged by groups or non-state actors at the societal level has been termed 5GW. This book discusses the theory of generational...

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence Theory, Technology, and Regulation

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Technology, and Regulation

1st Edition

By Nik Hynek, Anzhelika Solovyeva
January 29, 2024

This book examines the military characteristics and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the new global revolution in military affairs. Offering an original perspective on the utilization, imagination, and politics of AI in the context of military development and weapons regulation, the ...

Digital International Relations Technology, Agency and Order

Digital International Relations: Technology, Agency and Order

1st Edition

Edited By Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
November 03, 2023

This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations. This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes that explain this fundamental change. The ...

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