Journal Articles

• Interrogating the Imaginary Turn: Technology, War, and World Politics in an Era of Great Power Competition. Contemporary Security Policy, 47(2), 241–272, with R. Biegon & D. Møller Ølgaard (2026).
• The Offset Imaginary: Great Power Competition, Security Imaginaries, and the Making of Artificial Intelligence in American Defense Planning. Contemporary Security Policy, 47(2), 384-414 (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). *Over 50 Google Scholar citations*
• 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). *Over 50 Google Scholar citations*
• 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 and Special Sections

• Science fiction, sociotechnical imaginaries and future war: new avenues for Critical Security Studies research? Critical Studies on Security, 14(2), 404-438, edited with D. Depledge (2026).
• Imaginaries of Technology, War, and Security. Contemporary Security Policy, 47(2), 241-713, edited with R. Biegon and D. Møller Ølgaard (2026).
• Remote warfare and conflict in the twenty-first century. Defence Studies, 21(4), 427-572, edited with R. Biegon and V. Rauta (2021).

Research Commentaries

• Science Fiction, Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Future War: New Avenues for IR Research? Critical Studies on Security, 14(2), 404-411, co-authored with D. Depledge (2026).
• Monsters of Our Own Making? Skynet, Sociotechnical Imaginaries, and Nuclear Risk in an era of Great Power Competition. Critical Studies on Security , 14(2), 425–431 (2026).
• 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, A. Tan and A.T.H. Tan (Eds.), Global Security Challenges. New York: De Gruyter Publishing, with D. Møller Ølgaard (2026).
• 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).

Selected Online Publications

• Machine Guardians, Human Monsters, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Take the Terminator Franchise Seriously. AUTONORMS Blog (2026).
• Science Fiction and the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Future War. E-IR, co-authored with D. Depledge (2026).
• 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).
• 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.
• Book Review – Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence. Global Policy (2021).
• USA halten Opferzahlen von Drohneneinsätzen in Afghanistan zurück. Heise Online (2021) with I. Bode.