Journal Articles

• Interrogating the Imaginary Turn: Technology, War, and World Politics in an Era of Great Power Competition. Contemporary Security Policy (Forthcoming).
• The Offset Imaginary: Great Power Competition, Security Imaginaries, and the Making of Artificial Intelligence in American Defense Planning. Contemporary Security Policy, 1-32 (2026).
• Ensuring the Exercise of Human Agency in AI-Based Military Systems: Concerns Across the Lifecycle. Ethics and Information Technology 50(27), 1-12, with I. Bode, A. Nadibaidze, and C. Zhang (2025).
• Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan, and the United States. Big Data & Society, 11(4), 1-17, with I. Bode, H. Huelss, and A. Nadibaidze (2024).
• Machine guardians: The Terminator, AI narratives and US regulatory discourse on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Cooperation and Conflict, 59(1), 107-128, with I. Bode (2024).
• Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: From George W. Bush to forever war. International Politics, 61(1), 523–546, with R. Biegon (2024).
• Algorithmic warfare: Taking stock of a research programme. Global Society, 38(1), 1-23, with I. Bode, H. Huelss, A. Nadibaidze, and G. Qiao-Franco (2024).
• Prospects for the global governance of autonomous weapons: Comparing Chinese, Russian, and US practices. Ethics and Information Technology, 25(1), 1-15, with I. Bode, H. Huelss, A. Nadibaidze, and G. Qiao-Franco (2023).
• Remote warfare and the retooling of American primacy. Geopolitics, 27(3), 948-971, with R. Biegon (2022).
• Revisiting the remoteness of remote warfare: US military intervention in Libya during Obama’s presidency. Defence Studies, 21(4), 508-527, with R. Biegon (2021).
• Remote warfare – buzzword or buzzkill? Defence Studies, 21(4), 427-446, with R. Biegon and V. Rauta (2021).
• When ends Trump means: Continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy. Global Affairs, 6(1), 37-53, with R. Biegon (2020).

Journal Special Issues

• (New) Imaginaries of Technology, War, and Security. Contemporary Security Policy, edited with R. Biegon and D. Møller Ølgaard (Forthcoming).
• Remote warfare and conflict in the twenty-first century. Defence Studies, 21(4), 427-572, edited with R. Biegon and V. Rauta (2021).

Policy Reports

• Loitering munitions and unpredictability: Autonomy in weapon systems and challenges to human control. Published in collaboration with Article 36, 1-72, with I. Bode (2023).
• Meaning-less human control: Lessons from air defence systems on meaningful human control for the debate on AWS. Published in collaboration with Drone Wars UK, 1-72, with I. Bode (2021).

Published Commentaries

• Stay sceptical: Why International Relations scholars should approach AI with caution. The RUSI Journal, 169(5), 56-58 (2024).
• Conceptualizing remote warfare: The past, present, and future. Published in collaboration with Oxford Research Group, 1-11, with R. Biegon (2019).
• Defining remote warfare: Security cooperation. Published in collaboration with Oxford Research Group, 1-16, with R. Biegon (2017).

Book Chapters

• The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence – Imaginaries and Realities of Algorithmic Warfare. In M.L.R. Smith, (Eds.), Global Security Challenges. New York: De Gruyter Publishing, with D. Møller Ølgaard (Forthcoming).
• Remote warfare and the global perception of Obama’s counterterrorism policy. In R. Pistol & D. M. Gibson (Eds.), The Obama Administration: Perceptions and Encounters Beyond America. New York: Bloomsbury. (2025).
• Security cooperation as remote warfare: The US in the Horn of Africa. In A. McKay, A. Watson, & M. Karlshøj-Pedersen (Eds.), Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Bristol: E-IR Publishing, with R. Biegon (2021).

Data Catalogues

• Automation and autonomy in loitering munitions catalogue. Zendo, 1-63, with I. Bode (2023).
• Autonomy and automation in air defence systems catalogue. Zendo, 1-68, with I. Bode (2021).

Submissions of Written Evidence

• Dr Tom Watts – Written evidence (AIW0014). House of Lords Artificial Intelligence in Weapon Systems Committee, 1-13 (2023).
• Global governance of AI in the military domain. United Nations Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology, 1-8, with I. Bode, H. Huelss, and A. Nadibaidze (2023).
• Written evidence submitted by AutoNorms Project (TFP0008). UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Enquiry on Tech and The Future of UK, 1-9, with I. Bode, H. Huelss, and A. Nadibaidze (2021).

Selected Online Publications

• The Terminator at 40: this sci-fi ‘B-movie’ still shapes how we view the threat of AI. The Conversation (2024).
• “Mission Impossible”? Talking popular culture at the REAIM 2024 Summit. AUTONORMS Blog (2024).
• The Creator of new thinking on AI? Popular culture, geopolitics, and why stories about intelligent machines matter. AUTONORMS Blog (2023).
• Loitering munitions: flagging an urgent need for legally binding rules for autonomy in weapon systems. ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog (2023) with I. Bode.
• Remote Warfare: A debate worth the buzz? E-IR (2021) with R. Biegon and V. Rauta.
• Worried about the autonomous weapons of the future? Look at what’s already gone wrong. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (2021) with I. Bode.
• Drones in Afghanistan: Not a technological “Silver Bullet”. Magazin für Computertechnik (2021) with I. Bode.
• Primary Primers: No matter who wins the Democratic primary, an end to ‘Forever War’ is unlikely. LSE US Centre (2019).