BISA 2025 Conference

Conflict & Technology in Insecure Territory

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 13:15

1h 30m

Panel International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Description

This panel considers the disruptive function of new technologies in active conflict zones, with special consideration of Ukraine. The papers each explore important problems arising from the application of high tech warfare and the public realm of social media, as well as classical problems of state strategic rationales in the constantly evolving contemporary battlespace.

Subcontributions

• Allies entrapped in the grey zone: Wargaming the role of offensive cyber in multilateral Multi-Domain Operations below the threshold of armed conflict
• Demystifying deterrence in the age of AI
• The Long Road Ahead: Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Ukraine’s Innovative Twitter Practices
• New technologies and total mobilisation of state resources in the context of the war in Ukraine.
• Predicting Protracted War Through Identity Change On Social Media