Author profile: Catherine Delafield, Sarah Fishbein, J Andrés Gannon, Erik Gartzke, Jon Lindsay, Peter Schram and Estelle Shaya

Catherine Delafield is a Vanderbilt Undergraduate student and a member of the Research on Conflict and Collective Action (ROCCA) Lab.

Sarah Fishbein is a Vanderbilt Undergraduate student and a member of the Research on Conflict and Collective Action (ROCCA) Lab.

J Andrés Gannon is an International Security Program Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a Hans J. Morgenthau Research Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. He earned his PhD in Political Science from UC San Diego in 2021. Andres researches the evolution of military strategy and the conduct of warfare and has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the Oxford Encyclopedia on Politics.

Erik Gartzke is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies (cPASS) at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been a member of the research faculty since 2007.  Previous permanent faculty positions include Columbia University in the City of New York (2000 to 2007) and the Pennsylvania State University (1997 to 2000). Professor Gartzke’s research focuses on war, peace and international institutions, and his interests include deterrence, nuclear security, the liberal peace, alliances, information and war, cyberwar, and the evolving technological nature of interstate conflict.

Jon Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy  and Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He is the author of Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford University Press, 2019), with Erik Gartzke, and China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford University Press, 2015), with Tai Ming Cheung and Derek Reveron, and well as publications in international relations, intelligence studies, and the sociology of technology.

Peter Schram is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University’s Department of Political Science. He received a Masters of Economics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Professor Schram has published on terrorism and low-level conflict in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Games and Economic Behavior.

Estelle Shaya is a Vanderbilt Undergraduate student and a member of the Research on Conflict and Collective Action (ROCCA) Lab.

Rethinking Deterrence in Gray Zone Conflict

Ukraine stands as a contemporary case of a state trying to deter an adversary with robust force in the gray area between war and peace.

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