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EISS 2025 - Annual Conference

26–27 Jun 2025 Annual Conference
University of Macedonia
Europe/Athens timezone

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Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations

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26 Jun 2025, 10:00
Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis" (University of Macedonia)

Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"

University of Macedonia

Egnatia 156, Thessaloniki 546 36, Greece

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Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations

  • Julia Carver (University of Oxford)

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  1. 282. Regulatory Asymmetries in Cryptocurrency Governance: Implications for Sanctions Evasion
    Orfeas Anastasios Koidis (Rijkuniversiteit Groningen)
    26/06/2025, 10:00
    Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
    Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

    The rise of cryptocurrencies has introduced new dynamics in the global financial and geopolitical landscape, shaping both economic opportunities and security challenges. Among these challenges, cryptocurrencies have become strategic instruments for circumventing sanctions, exploiting their decentralized nature and regulatory fragmentation. The absence of a cohesive, multilateral regulatory...

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  2. 298. Competitive Cyber Statecraft of the Middle-Ground: A Neoclassical Realist Model
    Dr Arthur Laudrain (King's College London - Department of War Studies)
    26/06/2025, 10:20
    Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
    Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

    As cyberspace becomes a central arena for geopolitical competition, middle-ground countries — those neither strictly aligned with Western nor Eastern spheres of influence — play a growing role in shaping cyber governance (Gartzke and Lindsay, 2015; Nye, 2022). Traditional neorealist frameworks, which emphasize balancing and bandwagoning, fail to explain the diversity of cyber sovereignty...

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  3. 322. Infrastructural frontlines of (dis)information: data territoriality in the Russian war against Ukraine
    Louis PETINIAUD (GEODE - French Institute of Geopolitics, Paris 8 University)
    26/06/2025, 10:40
    Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
    Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

    The Russia-Ukraine war has critically underscored the importance of cyberspace in modern conflicts, with cyberattacks, information operations, and infrastructure attacks playing a key role since 2014. Beyond the battlefield, both Ukraine and Russia have pursued ambitious digital sovereignty policies that seek to protect their respective “information spaces.” Rooted in the strategic imperative...

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  4. 305. Online military influencers in a social media age
    Anders Puck Nielsen (Royal Danish Defence College)
    26/06/2025, 11:00
    Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
    Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

    The invention of social media is one of the most significant technological developments of the last decades. It has transformed the way our society works by facilitating methods of communication that allow broader participation in public debate. This has given rise to the phenomenon of online influencers who establish themselves as authoritative voices within a specific field outside of...

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