CyberwarfareSemester Course

DIS Copenhagen, Cyberwarfare, Elective Course
Major Discipline(s)
Government, International Relations, Political Science
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

Satellites, nuclear submarines, power plants, voting data, and your private data are all online and vulnerable. State and non-state actors alike have proven willing to exploit these vulnerabilities, bringing the world to a state of perpetual hidden conflict. Espionage, intrusion into critical infrastructure, and destructive cyber incidents happen daily. What does this entail for our understanding of peace in the cyber age and future warfare? Analyze the operational, legal, and political aspects with practitioners in the field.

Related Discipline(s)

This course would also be of interest to the following discipline(s):
Human Rights, Legal Studies

Faculty

Mikkel Storm Jensen

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

Major, Danish army. PhD (University of Southern Denmark, 2023). M.Sc. (Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 1996). Staff College (Royal Danish Defence College (RDDC), 2008). Research interests: Cyber strategy: States’ use of offensive cyberspace operations including a PhD on the means’ influences and use in alliances. Regarding defensive cyber strategies: the state’s roles in establishing societal cyber resilience. Furthermore: Grey Zone Operations, Intelligence analysis, counterinsurgency and stabilisation operations. Work experience: Danish armed forces since 1986. RDDC since 2016. Has been used extensively by RDDC for press comments, initially on the civil war in Syria and DAESH, lately mostly on the war in Ukraine. With DIS since 2023.

Ulrik Graff Rasmussen

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

Cand.jur. (Law, University of Copenhagen, 2006). European Legal Diploma, University of Kent, 2003. Head of Section, Danish Defense Command-Afghanistan, 2009. Head of Section, Danish Defense Command - Maritime operations, 2008. Deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009. With DIS since 2010.