Arthur Laudrain is a Research Assistant in Cyber Diplomacy at the Department of War Studies, and a DPhil candidate in Cybersecurity at the University of Oxford.

Arthur is part of the Cyber Statecraft in an Age of Systemic Competition (CyCraft) project headed by Prof. Tim Stevens, and jointly funded by EPSRC and Dstl.

Arthur is involved with the European Initiative for Security Studies since 2017, and is part of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.

Before joining King’s, Arthur gained first-hand experience of international and cyber security in government, think-tanks, and the private sector.

He was Fellow of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative in 2022-2023, and was nominated in the Santander-CIDOB 30-under-30 Future Leaders list.

Arthur holds an MA from the Department of War Studies and an LLM from Leiden Law School.

Qualifications:

• DPhil cand. in Cyber Security, University of Oxford (expected 2024)
• Master of Laws in Public International Law, Leiden University (2018)
• Master of Arts (Dist.) in International Peace and Security, King’s College London (2016)
• Bachelor of Science in International Studies, Université de Montréal (2015)

Research Interests:

• Cyber-enabled election interference
• Information manipulation
• Foreign Policy
• Cyber Strategies & Doctrines

Arthur’s research focuses on emerging technologies and international affairs, foreign interference in democratic processes, information manipulation, and cyber strategies and doctrines.

Publications:

Scientific publication:

• “Mapping the Known Unknowns of Cybersecurity Education: A Review of Syllabi on Cyber Conflict and Security”, Journal of Political Science Education, January 22nd 2020 (with Trey Herr and Max Smeets).

Expert commentary:

• “5G and the Huawei Controversy: Is it About More Than Just Security?”, BBC Science Focus Magazine, February 21st 2020.

• “France’s ‘strategic autonomy’ takes to space”, International Institute for Strategic Studies, August 14th 2019.

• “France’s New Offensive Cyber Doctrine”, Cybersecurity and Deterrence, Lawfare, Washington DC, February 26th 2019.

• “Avoiding A World War Web: The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace”, DayZero Cybersecurity Law and Policy, Lawfare, Washington DC, December 4th 2018.

• “Proliferation and Neo-realism: Analysing Tokyo’s Temptations Facing China and North Korea”, Revue Défense Nationale, Paris, n°801, June 2017, pp. 190-194 (in French). Re-edited in Les Deux Corée dans la RDN, Special Issue, December 2017, pp. 32-26 (in French).

 Teaching:

Technological Sovereignty & Strategic Autonomy (Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye)

PURE profile:

Arthur Laudrain — King's College London (kcl.ac.uk)