Dennis Broeders
Professor Global Security and Technology
- Name
- Prof.dr. D.W.J. Broeders
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9030
- d.w.j.broeders@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8827-2814
Dennis Broeders is Full Professor of Global Security and Technology, Senior Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security at Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University and Project Coordinator of EU Cyber Direct. His research and teaching broadly focuses on the interaction between international security, technology and policy, with specific areas of interest in global security, international cyber security governance, and emerging technologies. He teaches in the Bachelor program Security Studies and in the master program at the Cyber security Academy.
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Dennis Broeders is Full Professor of Global Security and Technology, Senior Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University, and Project Coordinator of EU Cyber Direct. His research and teaching broadly focuses on the interaction between international security, technology and policy, with specific areas of interest in global security, international cyber security governance, and emerging technologies. He teaches in the Bachelor program Security Studies and in the master program at the Cyber security Academy.
He is the author of the book ‘The public core of the internet’ (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and has contributed to the national and international debate on cyber security and international norms in many different fora, including the UN, IGF, EU, CyFy and CyCon. He has provided input into policy processes such as the Sino-EU cyber dialogue and the UN GGE and OEWG.
He has held visiting fellowships at the Social Science Center WZB in Berlin (2008), and the Oxford Internet Institute (2011). Prior to joining ISGA he was a senior research fellow at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy. He was professor by special appointment of Technology and Society at the department of Public Administration and Sociology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (until 1 November 2018).
Professor Global Security and Technology
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Broeders D., Cristiano F. & Kaminska M. (2023), In search of digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy: normative power Europe to the test of its geopolitical ambitions, Journal of Common Market Studies : .
- Kaminska M.K., Broeders D.W.J. & Cristiano F. (2021), Limiting viral spread: automated cyber operations and the principles of distinction and discrimination in the Grey Zone. Jančárková T., Lindström L., Visky G. & Zotz P. (Eds.), 13th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Going Viral. 13th International Conference on Cyber Conflict 25 May 2021 - 28 May 2021 no. 13. Tallinn: NATO CCDCOE Publications. 59-72.
- Broeders D., Cristiano F. & Weggemans D. (2021), Too close for comfort: cyber terrorism and information security across national policies and international diplomacy, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism : 1-28.
- Broeders D.W.J. (2021), The (im)possibilities of addressing election interference and the public core of the internet in the UN GGE and OEWG: a mid-process assessment, Journal of Cyber Policy : 1-21.
- Broeders D.W.J. (2021), Private active cyber defense and (international) cyber security—pushing the line?, Journal of Cybersecurity 7(1): 1-14.
- Vériter S.L., Kaminska M.K., Broeders D.W.J. & Koops J.A. (2021), Responding to the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’: national countermeasures against information influence in Europe. The Hague: The Hague Program for Cyber Norms.
- Broeders D.W.J. & Cristiano F. (2020), Cyber Norms and the United Nations: Between Strategic Ambiguity and Rules of the Road. Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). [other].
- Broeders D.W.J. Berg B. van den (2020), Governing cyberspace: behavior, power, and diplomacy. London: Rowman and Littelfield.
- Broeders D.W.J. Busser E. de Pawlak P. (2020), Three tales of attribution in cyberspace: criminal law, international law and policy debates. The Hague: The Hague Program for Cyber Norms. [policy paper].
- Broeders D.W.J. & Berg B. van den (2020), Governing Cyberspace: Behavior, Power, and Diplomacy. In: Broeders D.W.J. & Berg B. van den (Eds.), Governing Cyberspace: Behavior, Power, and Diplomacy. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 1-15.
- Broeders D. & Berg B. van den (2020), Governing Cyberspace: Behavior, power and diplomacy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Cristiano F., Broeders D. & Weggemans D. (2020), Countering cyber terrorism in a time of ‘war on words’: Kryptonite for the protection of digital rights? . The Hague: The Hague Program for Cyber Norms.
- Cristiano F., Broeders D.W.J. & Weggemans D.J. (2020), Introduction: cyber terrorism and human rights from the international to the national, and back?. In: Cristiano F., Broeders D.W.J. & Weggemans D.J. (Eds.), Countering cyber terrorism in a time of ‘war on words’: Kryptonite for the protection of digital rights?. The Hague: The Hague Program for Cyber Norms. 1-5.
- Broeders D.W.J. (15 May 2020), Creating consequences for election interference . Directions: Cyber Digital Europe: EU Cyber Direct Project. [blog entry].
- Broeders D.W.J. Boeke S. Georgieva I. (2019), Foreign intelligence in the digital age. Navigating a state of ‘unpeace’. The Hague: The Hague Program for Cyber Norms. [policy paper].
- Broeders D.W.J., Adamson L. & Creemers R.J.E.H. (2019), A coalition of the unwilling? Chinese and Russian perspectives on cyberspace. The Hague: The Hague Program for Cyber Norms. [policy paper].
- Boeke S. & Broeders D.W.J. (2018), The Demilitarisation of Cyber Conflict, Survival 60(6): 73-90.
- Broeders D.W.J. (2017), Aligning the international protection of ‘the public core of the internet’ with state sovereignty and national security, Journal of Cyber Policy 2(3): 366-376.
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