Fields of Interest: Cyber conflict, Emerging Technologies, Governance of Technologies, Security Studies, Science and Technology Studies, International Relations.
Education:
- PhD: Otto Suhr Institute, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2019
- Assistant Professor: Cyber Civilization Research Center, Keio Global Research Institute, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2019-2022
Bio: Dr. Tobias Burgers’ primary research interests focus on emerging technologies and their (political) impact on international conflict and security, the governance of (new and emerging) technologies, and international security relations in the Indo-Pacific. He received his doctorate in political science from the Otto Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin. His doctoral research examined how cyber and robotic technologies change the (political) nature of international conflict and war, focusing on the United Nations peace operations. During his doctoral studies, he worked for the Berlin N.G.O. Crisis Simulation for Peace, developing conflict simulation scenarios.
Following his doctorate, he was a Taiwan Fellow at the National Chengchi University and a Canon Foundation fellow at the Cyber Civilization Research Center, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, where he researched the governance of technologies in the Asia Pacific, as well as the impact of cyber and robotic technologies on security dynamics in the region. Most recently, he was a project assistant professor at the Cyber Civilization Research Center, where he taught on these subjects and ran a region-wide research project understanding the societal impact of cyber conflict and its impact on conventional security relations.
Select Publications:
- Burgers, T., & Robinson, D. R. (2018). Keep dreaming: Cyber arms control is not a viable policy option. Sicherheit & Frieden, 36(3), 140–145. https://doi.org/10.5771/0175-274x-2018-3-140
- Burgers, T., & Robinson, D. R. S. (2016). Networked Authoritarianism Is on the Rise. Sicherheit Und Frieden (S+F) / Security and Peace, 34(4), 248–252. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26429018
- Burgers, T. (2016). An Unmanned South-China-Sea? Understanding the risks and implications of the arrival of the digital and robotic revolution in military affairs in the South-China-Sea. Power Politics in Asia’s Contested Waters: Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea, 77-94.
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