Chair & Associate Professor, Political Science & Public Policy
Director, International Studies Program
Alison Lawlor Russell, Ph.D. is a political scientist specializing in cyber security strategy and cyber warfare. She is the recipient of the 2018 Sidney D. Drell Academic Award for Intelligence and National Security.
Articles
“When Attackers Pull the Plug,” Fletcher Magazine, Tufts University, Summer 2018, 19.
“Roadmap for a Code of Conduct for Cyberspace,” Fletcher Security Review, Special Edition: Emerging Domains of Security, vol. 3, no.1, 2015, 8-12. (with Colonel Thomas McCarthy, Ph.D.)
“Cyberwarfare: China’s Not-So-Hidden Secret,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, March 28, 2013.
Books
“Strategic A2/AD in Cyberspace,” Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“Cyber Blockades,” Georgetown University Press, 2014.
Book Chapters
“The Implications of Cyberspace for Naval Strategy and Security”; in Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Joachim Krause and Sebastian Bruns, Routledge Press, January 2016.
“A2/AD @ the Physical Layer of Cyberspace”; in International Conference on Cyber Conflict 2015: Architectures in Cyberspace, NATO Center for Excellence, Tallinn, Estonia, May 2015.
“Counternarcotics efforts and Afghan poppy famers: Finding the right approach,” High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, eds. Paivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad, 2012, (Environmental Law Institute and United Nations Environment Programme, New York), 467-490. (with David M. Caterious, Jr.)
2018 Sidney D. Drell Academic Award for Intelligence and National Security
Fr. Kevin DePrinzio, O.S.A., vice president for mission and ministry at Villanova University and a member of Merrimack College’s Board of Trustees, gave this year’s lecture.
