Jon R. Lindsay

Associate Professor

School of Cybersecurity and Privacy
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
School of Public Policy (by courtesy)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Jon Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He has a joint appointment in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and a courtesy appointment in the School of Public Policy. Previously he was at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford University Press, 2019), with Erik Gartzke, and China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford University Press, 2015), with Tai Ming Cheung and Derek Reveron, and numerous publications in international relations, intelligence studies, and the sociology of technology. He is completing a book project entitled, Age of Deception: Cybersecurity and Secret Statecraft. He also has a book forthcoming with Erik Gartzke entitled, Disintegrating Deterrence: Hard Political Choices about New Military Domains. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in computer science and B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University. He has also served in the U.S. Navy with assignments in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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