Publications

Books

Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (Editors) Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010).

Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (Editors) Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008).

Deibert, Ronald J. Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Reports

Information Warfare Monitor and Shadowserver Foundation (2010). Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating cyber espionage 2.0

Information Warfare Monitor. (2009). Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network

Articles, Book Chapters, and Associated Outputs

Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Risking Security: The policies and paradoxes of cyberspace security,” in International Political Sociology, Volume 4 Issue 1, Pages 15 – 32.

Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Control and Subversion in Russian Cyberspace,” in Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace, (forthcoming: MIT Press, 2010). Co-editor with John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain

Deibert R. and Rohozinski, R. “Beyond Denial: Shaping Cyberspace,” in Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace, (forthcoming: MIT Press, 2010). Co-editor with John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain

Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Undercover of the Net,” in Anne Clunan and Harold Trinkunas, (eds.) Ungoverned Spaces? Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty (forthcoming Stanford University Press: 2010)

Deibert R. “Protect the Net: The Looming Destruction of the Global Communications Environment,” in Mark Kingwell and Patrick Tunnel, (eds.) Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space, (Wilfed Laurier Press, 2009)

Deibert, R. “The Geopolitics of Internet Control: Censorship, Sovereignty and Cyberspace,” in Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics, New York: Routledge, 2008. Online version here

Deibert, R. “Black Code Redux,” in Megan Boler, ed. Tactics in Hard Times, (MIT Press, 2008).

Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski. “Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Internet Securitization and Global Civil Society,” in Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Internet Filtering, eds. Deibert et al. (MIT Press, 2008).

Deibert, R. “Between Essentialism and Constructivism: Harold Innis and World Order Transformations,” in The Toronto School of Communication Theory: Interpretations, Extensions, Applications. Edited by Rita Watson and Menahem Blondheim, University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Deibert R. and Villeneuve, N. (2005). Firewalls and Power: An Overview of Global State Censorship of the Internet. Human Rights in the Digital Age. Eds. Mathias Klang and Andrew Murray. Portland, Or.: GlassHouse.

Deibert, R. “Deep Probe: The Evolution of Network Intelligence,” Intelligence and National Security, Volume 17, No 1, 2004.

Deibert, R. “Black Code: Censorship, Surveillance, and Militarization of Cyberspace,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2003.

Deibert R. and Stein J. (2003). “Social and Electronic Networks in the War on Terror,” in Robert Latham, (ed.) Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between IT and Security, New York: Free Press

Deibert, R. “Unfettered Observation: The Politics of Earth Monitoring From Space,” in Harry Lambright, (ed.) Space Policy for the 21st Century, (NY: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

Deibert, R. “Hyper-Realities of World Politics: Theorizing the Communications Revolution,” in Evan Potter, (ed.) Cyber-Diplomacy: Managing Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, (McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2003).

Deibert, R. “Civil Society Activism on the World Wide Web: the Case of the anti-MAI Lobby,” in David R. Cameron and Janice G. Stein, (eds.) Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and the ]State, (Toronto: UBC Press, 2003).

Deibert, R. “The Politics of Internet Design: Securing the Foundations for Global Civil Society Networks,” in Stephen Coleman, (ed.) The E-Connected World: Its Social and Political Implications, (McGill University Press, 2003).

Deibert, R. “Circuits of Power: Security in the Internet Environment,” in J.P. Singh and James N. Rosenau, (eds.) Information Technologies and Global Politics: the Changing Scope of Power and Governance, (NY: Suny Press, 2002), pp. 115-142.

Deibert, R. “Dark Guests and Great Firewalls: Chinese Internet Security Policy,” Journal of Social Issues, (2001) 58, 1: 143-158.

Deibert, R. “Neo-Medievalism,” in R. J. Barry Jones, (ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, June 2001.

Deibert, R. “International Plug n’ Play? Citizen Activism, the Internet, and Global Public Policy,” International Studies Perspectives, (Vol. 1, No. 3, 2000), pp. 255-272.

Deibert, R. “Harold Innis and the Empire of Speed,” Review of International Studies, (Vol. 25, No. 2, April 1999).

Deibert, R. “Network Power,” Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, 2nd edition. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Deibert, R. “Out of Focus: U.S. Military Satellites and Environmental Rescue,” in Daniel H. Deudney and Richard Matthew, (eds.) Contested Grounds: Conflict and Security in the New Environmental Politics, (New York: SUNY Press, 1999).

Deibert, R. “Altered Worlds: Social Forces in the Hypermedia Environment,” in Leslie Pal and Cynthia Alexander, (eds.), Digital Democracy: Politics and Policy in the Wired World, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Deibert, R. “Virtual Resources: International Relations Research on the Internet,” International Organization 52, 1 (Winter 1998), pp. 221-221.

Deibert, R. “Exorcismus Theoriae: Pragmatism, Metaphors and the Return of the Medieval in IR Theory,” European Journal of International Relations, (Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1997): 167-192.

Deibert, R. “Typographica: the medium and the medieval to modern transformation,” Review of International Studies 22 (January 1996), pp. 29-56.

Deibert, R., J. Olsen, and N. Roese, “Psychological Biases in Counterfactual Thought Experiments,” in Philip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin, Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 296-300.

OpEds and Comments

Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, Breaking Up Dark Clouds in Cyberspace, Globe and Mail, April 6, 2010.

Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, Google, China, and the coming threat from cyberspace, Christian Science Monitor, January 28, 2010.

Deibert, R., More than a Tech Problem, New York Times, January 16, 2010.

Deibert, R., Google, China, and a Wake Up Call to Protect the Net, Globe and Mail, January 14, 2010.

Deibert, R., Smarter Sleuthing can Save our Online Privacy, Globe and Mail, November 2, 2009.

Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, Ottawa Needs a Strategy for Cyberwar, National Post, June 30, 2009.

Deibert, R., Arms Control in Cyberspace, New York Times, May 29, 2009.

Deibert, R., The Internet: Collateral Damage, Globe and Mail, January 1, 2003.

Book Reviews

Deibert, R. “The Virtual Absence of Malice: Cyber Security and Threat Politics,” review of Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US efforts to secure the information age, Routledge Press, 2008, forthcoming in International Studies Review

Deibert, R. Review of Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, (Edited by Francis Beer and Robert Hariman) in American Political Science Review, (Vol. 92, No. 3, September 1998), pp. 742 – 743.

Deibert, R. Review of Critical Security Studies, (Edited by Keith Krause and Michael Williams) in International Journal, (Spring 1998), pp. 375-376.

Deibert, R. Review of The Global Political Economy of Communications, (Edited by Edward Comor), in International Journal, (Autumn 1997), pp. 384-385.

Other Outputs

Ron Deibert, “Toward a Cyber Security Strategy,” Vanguard (March/April 2010), pp.10-11.

Deibert, R. (2010). China’s Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy, Canadian International Council China Papers Number 7, February 2010

Information Warfare Monitor reports can also be found on the IWM website.

ONI outputs can also be accessed at the ONI’s website.

Citizen Lab. (2007). Everyone’s Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship. Citizen Lab

Government Reports

Written and Oral Testimony. “Panel III: Access to the Internet and the Participation of U.S. & Western Firms in Chinese Internet Controls.” In US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Washington D.C.: US Government. June 18, 2008.

E-Democracy: Current Trends and Future Prospects. A Report to the Panel on the Role of Government, Ontario, (May 2003), 44 pages.

Security in the Internet Environment: Issues for Canadian Foreign Policy, (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development, 1998).

ISMA Re-Appraised: The Politics of Multilateral Satellite Reconnaissance, Ottawa: Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, 1994)

Satellite Reconnaissance for Multilateral Verification: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Test Ban, and Chemical Weapons Convention, (Ottawa: Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, 1993).