Dr. Max Smeets

Max Smeets

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Max Smeets ist Senior Researcher am Center for Security Studies (CSS) der ETH Zürich und Co-Leiter der externe SeiteEuropean Cyber Conflict Research Initiative und dem externe SeiteEuropean Cyber Conflict Research Incubator. Er ist der Autor von 'externe SeiteNo Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber- Force' (Oxford University Press & Hurst Publishers, 2022) und Mitherausgeber von 'Deter, Disrupt or Deceive? Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest" (Georgetown University Press, 2023) und "Cyberspace and Instability" (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

Max ist Mitarbeiter am externe SeiteCenter for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) der Stanford University und Associate Fellow am externe SeiteRoyal United Services Institute (RUSI). Er hält auch Vorlesungen über Cyber-Kriegsführung und -Verteidigung im Rahmen des Kurses für höhere Offiziere an der NATO-Verteidigungsakademie in Rom.

Vor kurzem gründete er externe SeiteBinding Hook mit, ein neues Medienunternehmen für Technologie und Sicherheit, das zu ECCRI gehört.

Zuvor war er Postdoktorand und Dozent am CISAC der Universität Stanford und College Lecturer am Keble College der Universität Oxford. Ausserdem war er als Forscher und Stipendiat bei New America, dem SIPA der Columbia University, dem Sciences Po CERI und dem NATO CCD COE tätig. Vor seiner akademischen Laufbahn arbeitete er im Finanzwesen in London und Amsterdam.

Max erhielt einen BA in Wirtschaft, Politik und Statistik summa cum laude vom University College Roosevelt, Universität Utrecht, und einen M.Phil (Brasenose College) und DPhil (St. John's College) in Internationalen Beziehungen von der Universität Oxford.

Selected Publications

Books

Chesney, Robert; Shires, James; Smeets, Max (eds.) (2023) 'Cyberspace and Instability', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Chesney, Robert; Smeets, Max (eds.) (2023) 'Deter, Disrupt or Deceive? Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest', Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) 'No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force', London: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd.

Journal Articles

externe SeiteMakridis, Christos; Maschmeyer, Lennart; Smeets, Max (2024) 'If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception', Journal of Peace Research, 61, 1: 72-86.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2023) 'The challenges of military adaptation to the cyber domain: a case study of the Netherlands', Small Wars & Insurgencies, 34, 7: 1343-1362.

externe SeiteDunn Cavelty, Myriam; Smeets, Max (2023) 'Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority', Journal of European Public Policy.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) ‘A US history of not conducting cyber attacks’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 78, 4: 208-213.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) 'Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications', Security Studies, 31, 1: 65-91.

externe SeiteEgloff, Florian; Smeets, Max (2021) 'Publicly Attributing Cyber Attacks: A Framework', Journal of Strategic Studies.

externe SeiteChesney, Robert; Smeets, Max (2020) 'The Dynamics of Cyber Conflict and Competition', Texas National Security Review 3, 4: 4-7.

externe SeiteRovner, Joshua; Warner, Michael; Lindsay, Jon R.; Fischerkeller, Michael P.; Harknett, Richard J.; Kollars, Nina; Chesney, Robert; Smeets, Max (2020) 'Policy Roundtable: Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest', Texas National Security Review, Special Issue: Cyber Competition.

externe SeiteHarknett, Richard J.; Smeets, Max (2020) 'Cyber Campaigns and Strategic Outcomes', Journal of Strategic Studies.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2020) 'U.S. Cyber Strategy of Persistent Engagement & Defend Forward: Implications for the Alliance and Intelligence Collection', Intelligence and National Security.

externe SeiteHerr, Trey; Laudrain, Arthur; Smeets, Max (2020) 'Mapping the Known Unknowns of Cybersecurity Education: A Review of Syllabi in Cyber Conflict and Security', Journal of Political Science Education 17, SUP1: 503-519.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max; Works, JD (2020) 'Operational Decision-Making for Cyber Operations: In Search of a Model', The Cyber Defense Review 5, 1: 95-112.

externe SeiteMakridis, Christos; Smeets, Max (2019) 'Determinants of Cyber Readiness', Journal of Cyber Policy 4, 1: 72-89.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2018) 'The Strategic Value of Offensive Cyber Operations', Strategic Studies Quarterly 12, 3: 90-113.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2018) 'Integrating Offensive Cyber Capabilities: Meaning, Dilemmas, and Assessment', Defence Studies 18, 4: 395-410.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2018) 'A Matter of Time: On the Transitory Nature of Cyber Weapons', Journal of Strategic Studies 41, 1-2: 6-32. *Awarded the 2018 Amos Perlmutter Prize

externe SeiteScott-Smith, Giles; Smeets, Max (2013) 'Noblesse Oblige: The Transatlantic Security Dynamic and Dutch Involvement in the Joint Strike Fighter Program', International Journal 68, 1: 49-69.

Book Chapters

externe SeiteLin, Herbert; Smeets, Max (2019) 'A Strategic Assessment of the U.S. Cyber Command Vision', in: Lin, Herbert; Zegart, Amy (eds.) Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 81-104.

Book Reviews

externe SeiteEgloff, Florian; Smeets, Max (2020) 'Review: Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers: By Andy Greenberg', New York: Doubleday.

Op-eds

externe SeiteMakridis, Christos, Maschmeyer, Lennart; Smeets, Max (2024) 'Understanding patterns of cyber conflict coverage in media', Binding Hook.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max, (2023) ‘The magic of sophisticated cyber attacks,’ Binding Hook.

externe SeiteShires, James; Smeets, Max, (2023) 'Introducing Binding Hook', Binding Hook.

externe SeiteGrossman, Taylor; Kaminska, Monica; Shires, James; Smeets, Max (2023) 'The Cyber Dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine War', European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative, 1-36.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) 'Why NATO Countries Don’t Share Cyber Weapons', The National Interest.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) ‘AI Will Be a Double-Edged Sword in Future Cyber Conflicts', The National Interest.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max; Achberger, Brita (2022) ‘Cyber hacktivists are busy undermining Putin’s invasion', The Washington Post: The Monkey Cage.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) ‘Hack Global, Buy Local: The Inefficiencies of the Zero-Day Exploit Market’, Lawfare.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) ‘The Risks of Managing a Purchased Cyber Arsenal’, Council on Foreign Relations: Net Politics.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) ‘We Buy and Sell: The Public Advertisement of Zero-Day Exploits’, The Alert.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) 'Building a Cyber Force Is Even Harder Than You Thought', War on the Rocks.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) 'Going the Extra Mile: What It Takes to Be a Responsible Cyber Power', Lawfare.

externe SeiteAchberger, Brita; Smeets, Max (2022) 'The Opportunities and Challenges of Military Cyber Exercises', Council on Foreign Relations: Net Politics.

externe SeiteChesney, Robert; Smeets, Max (2020) 'Intervention: Exploring Cyber Conflict and Competition', War on the Rocks.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max; Soesanto, Stefan (2020) 'Cyber Deterrence Is Dead: Long Live Cyber Deterrence!', Council on Foreign Relations: Net Politics.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2019) 'Cyber Command’s Strategy Risks Friction With Allies', Lawfare.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2019) 'There are too many Red Lines in Cyberspace', Lawfare.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2019) 'NATO Allies Need to Come to Terms With Offensive Cyber Operations', Lawfare.

externe SeiteLin, Herb; Smeets, Max (2018) 'What Is Absent From the U.S. Cyber Command 'Vision'', Lawfare.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2018) 'The Netherlands Just Revealed its Cybercapacity. So What Does That Mean?', Washington Post.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max; Moore, Daniel (2018) 'Why We Are Unconvinced NATO’s Cyber Policy Is More Aggressive, and That’s a Good Thing', Council on Foreign Relations.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max; Grigsby, Alex (2018) 'What Did the 2018 NATO Summit Accomplish With Respect to Cyber Issues?', Council on Foreign Relations.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2017) 'When Routine Isn’t Enough: Why Military Cyber Commands Need Creativity at the Human Level', War on the Rocks.

externe SeiteShires, James; Smeets, Max (2017) 'The Word Cyber Now Means Everything – and Nothing at All', Slate.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2017) 'Europe Slowly Starts to Talk More Openly about Offensive Cyber Operations', Council on Foreign Relations: Net Politics.

Reports and Conference Articles

externe SeiteGrossman, Taylor; Kaminska, Monica; Shires, James; Smeets, Max (2023) 'The Cyber Dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine War', European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative Report, April 2023, 1-36.

externe SeiteShires, James; Kaminska, Monica; Smeets, Max, (2022) ‘Cyber Operations during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Lessons Learned (so far)’, European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative Report, July 6, 1-12.

externe SeiteGilli, Andrea; Gilli, Mauro; Grgić, Gorana; Henke, Marina; Lanoszka, Alexander; Meijer, Hugo; Scaglioli, Lucrezia; Silove, Nina; Simón, Luis; Smeets, Max (2022) ‘Strategic Shifts and NATO’s new Strategic Concept', NATO Defence College Research Paper 24.

Smeets, Max (2022) ‘What it Takes to Develop a Military Cyber-Force', CSS Policy Perspectives 10, 7.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2022) ‘The Role of Military Cyber Exercises: A Case Study of Locked Shields’, Tallinn: CyCon, NATO CCD COE Publications.

externe SeiteSmeets, Max (2019) '‘NATO Members’ Organizational Path Towards Conducting Offensive Cyber Operations: A Framework for Analysis', Tallinn: CyCon, NATO CCD COE Publications.

externe SeiteGorwa, Robert; Smeets, Max (2019) 'Cyber Conflict in Political Science: A Review of Methods and Literature', Toronto: ISA Annual Convention.

externe SeiteLin, Herbert; Smeets, Max (2018) 'Offensive Cyber Capabilities: To What Ends?', in: Minárik, Tomáš; Jakschis, Raik; Lindström, Lauri (eds.) 10th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon), Tallinn: NATO CCD COE Publications.

externe SeiteHerr, Trey; Morgus, Robert; Smeets, Max (2017) 'Countering the Proliferation of Offensive Cyber Capabilities', in: The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (ed.) GCSC Issue Brief 1: Briefings and Memos from the Research Advisory Group, The Hague: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, 161-187.

externe SeiteHealey, Jason; Smeets, Max (2017) 'The Continuities and Discontinuities of Cyber History', in: Canfil,Justin Key; Healey,Jason (eds.) State of the Field Report on Cyber Conflict 2017, Vienna, Virginia: Cyber Conflict Studies Association, 1-10.

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