Get With the Times, International Relations

The top IR schools are hardly teaching students anything about cybersecurity — and that’s a big problem.

It was this summer, three years into my international relations major, that I started to realize something was missing.

I’d spent hours wading through articles about theory and practice — learning about guerrilla warfare, the nuclear proliferation debate, and the legal norms of war. But until I started interning for New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative, I couldn’t name one instance of a state-sponsored cyber offensive.

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