Dennis Broeders
Biographic Data
| ID | 279062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Broeders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Broeders |
| SIGNATURE | BROEDERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3307-3807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 355 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
All Quiet on the Western Front: Strategic Options of Western States for Negotiating a Treaty on International Cyber Security
The debate over a convention on international cyber security is long-standing, but recent developments suggest that treaty negotiations are becoming increasingly plausible. While Western and like-minded states have long opposed negotiations, Russia has consistently advocated for a treaty on ‘international information security’. Past developments, including the United Nations cybercrime negotiations, also initiated by Russia, suggest that resistan…
Digital corporate autonomy: Geo-Economics and Corporate Agency in Conflict and Competition
Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure
The war in Ukraine has underscored the risks and threats to global Internet infrastructure from geopolitically motivated cyber operations. The Domain Name System and core protocols responsible for the routing, forwarding, and security of Internet traffic have been exploited by actors in Russia and Ukraine for denial‐of‐service attacks, surveillance, and censorship. Additionally, states have tried to compel organisations that maintain and govern s…
Cyber intelligence and international security: Breaking the legal and diplomatic silence
In cyberspace intelligence agencies, rather than militaries, are the most prominent security actors. However, many cyber operations conducted by intelligence agencies are not ‘classic’ espionage activities, but may be best described as digital covert action (sabotage, subversion, information operations). Given the fact that international law and diplomacy traditionally do not address espionage, cyber operations conducted by intelligence agencies …
The pervasive informality of the international cybersecurity regime: Geopolitics, non-state actors and diplomacy
The international cybersecurity regime typifies the rise of informality in modern global governance. Despite the increase in sophisticated cyber operations globally, states do not embrace formal multilateral cooperation to prevent and mitigate them. What explains the preference for informal governance in international cybersecurity, and why have non-binding agreements around “responsible behaviour” proliferated in this domain? In introducing a sp…
Pushing boundaries: An empirical view on the digital sovereignty of six governments in the midst of geopolitical tensions
In just a few years, the issue of “digital sovereignty” has emerged as an important security issue for governments across the globe, reflecting a growing unease about the security risks associated with government services that depend on foreign service providers for digital infrastructure and traffic routing. This work investigates to which extent government services and communication with citizens relies on infrastructure outside their own juris…
In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions
This article analyses the recent use of European Union (EU) terminology of digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy, aiming to identify tensions between policy considerations of fundamental rights, free market principles and geopolitical concerns. These tensions are rooted in the disparity between the EU's considerable economic and regulatory power in digital matters and its limited mandate and capabilities in foreign policy. The article also e…
Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy
This article analyses the evolution and interplay of national policies and international diplomacy on cyber terrorism within and across the UNSC’s permanent five members and the UN process on cyber norms (GGE and OEWG). First, it reveals how – through the extension of preemptive measures to low-impact cyber activities and online content – national policies progressively articulate cyber terrorism as an issue of information security. Second, it pr…
The Demilitarisation of Cyber Conflict
The debate about state behaviour in cyberspace may be set in the wrong legal key
The Secret in the Information Society
Who can still keep a secret in a world in which everyone and everything are connected by technology aimed at charting and cross-referencing people, objects, movements, behaviour, relationships, tastes and preferences? The possibilities to keep a secret have come under severe pressure in the information age. That goes for the individual as well as the state. This development merits attention as secrecy is foundational for individual freedom as wel…
Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data
In the name of Development: Power, profit and the datafication of the global South
Border surveillance, mobility management and the shaping of non-publics in Europe
Social sorting of migrants and travellers based on data stored in information systems is at the centre of border controls and mobility management in Europe. Recent literature finds that the inclusion-exclusion distinction is insufficiently equipped to do justice to the variety of classifications that is being applied. Instead, a proliferation of refined categorizations determines the outcome of visa and permit applications. This article explores …
Innocence Lost: Care and Control in Dutch Digital Youth Care
The Dutch National Reference Index is the political answer to public outcry about a number of well-publicised cases in which the tragic deaths of very small children were connected with a failing youth care system. The parallel with the tragic UK case of Victoria Climbié in 2003, which catalysed the reform and digitisation of the UK policy system of child and youth care, is striking. Analysing the development of the index in the Netherlands, we p…
Dreaming of Seamless Borders: ICTs and the Pre-Emptive Governance of Mobility in Europe
A recent trend in migration policy in Europe is the increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for border control purposes. A growing academic literature explains the digitisation of border controls as an instance of the post-9/11 securitisation of migration policy. This paper re-examines why European states are digitising their border controls, and then explores how ‘pre-emptive mobility governance’ works. Although securi…
Return to sender: Administrative detention of irregular migrants in Germany and the Netherlands
The expulsion of irregular migrants has become a political priority in many (northern) EU member states. In countries such as Germany and the Netherlands this has resulted in a rather puzzling situation in which the capacity for the administrative detention of irregular migrants is increasing, while the number of effective expulsions seems to be decreasing. In this article two theoretical perspectives are used to analyse these developments: a per…
A Case of Mixed Motives: Formal and Informal Functions of Administrative Immigration Detention
In most EU countries and the United States, immigration detention is defined as an administrative, non-punitive measure to facilitate expulsion. This paper argues that immigration detention in the Netherlands serves three informal functions in addition to its formal function as an instrument of expulsion: (1) deterring illegal residence, (2) controlling pauperism and (3) managing popular anxiety by symbolically asserting state control. These info…
Breaking Down Anonymity: Digital Surveillance of Irregular Migrants in Germany and the Netherlands
List of abbreviations 1 Introduction and research questions 1.1 The irregular migrant as a policy problem 1.2 Turning inwards: internal migration control 1.3 Research questions: internal migration control at crossroads? 1.4 Case selection: Germany and the Netherlands as 'most likely' cases 1.5 Outline of the study 2 The state, surveillance and irregular migrants: theoretical perspectives 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The changing nature of European border…
The State versus the Alien: Immigration Control and Strategies of Irregular Immigrants
In the past decade the Dutch state and the European Union have initiated a number of measures to make the strategies of irregular immigrants more visible in order to exclude, apprehend and expel them more effectively. These measures have limited the scope of irregular immigrants to manoeuvre in the legitimate institutions of society. As a consequence irregular migrants are pushed towards the fringes of legality and beyond. This article discusses …
The New Digital Borders of Europe: EU Databases and the Surveillance of Irregular Migrants
This article analyses the development of three EU migration databases and their significance for the internal control of irregular migrants. Because borders and immigration policy alone cannot stop irregular migration, many governments turn to internal migration control on settled irregular migrants. Surveillance of this group is aimed at their exclusion from key societal institutions, discouraging their stay and ultimately, the deportation of ap…
The Fight Against Illegal Migration: Identification Policies and Immigrants' Counterstrategies
In recent years, northern European Union (EU) member states have intensified internal surveillance on irregular migrants. Policy innovation has been geared to controlling, identifying, and even reidentifying irregular migrants who settled within their borders. Policy aims are deterrence, exclusion, and, ultimately, expulsion. Developments in labor market, detention, and expulsion policies and surveillance by the EU immigration database are analyz…
In the name of Development: Power, profit and the datafication of the global South
The New Digital Borders of Europe: EU Databases and the Surveillance of Irregular Migrants
This article analyses the development of three EU migration databases and their significance for the internal control of irregular migrants. Because borders and immigration policy alone cannot stop irregular migration, many governments turn to internal migration control on settled irregular migrants. Surveillance of this group is aimed at their exclusion from key societal institutions, discouraging their stay and ultimately, the deportation of ap…
The Fight Against Illegal Migration: Identification Policies and Immigrants' Counterstrategies
In recent years, northern European Union (EU) member states have intensified internal surveillance on irregular migrants. Policy innovation has been geared to controlling, identifying, and even reidentifying irregular migrants who settled within their borders. Policy aims are deterrence, exclusion, and, ultimately, expulsion. Developments in labor market, detention, and expulsion policies and surveillance by the EU immigration database are analyz…
The State versus the Alien: Immigration Control and Strategies of Irregular Immigrants
In the past decade the Dutch state and the European Union have initiated a number of measures to make the strategies of irregular immigrants more visible in order to exclude, apprehend and expel them more effectively. These measures have limited the scope of irregular immigrants to manoeuvre in the legitimate institutions of society. As a consequence irregular migrants are pushed towards the fringes of legality and beyond. This article discusses …
In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions
This article analyses the recent use of European Union (EU) terminology of digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy, aiming to identify tensions between policy considerations of fundamental rights, free market principles and geopolitical concerns. These tensions are rooted in the disparity between the EU's considerable economic and regulatory power in digital matters and its limited mandate and capabilities in foreign policy. The article also e…
Border surveillance, mobility management and the shaping of non-publics in Europe
Social sorting of migrants and travellers based on data stored in information systems is at the centre of border controls and mobility management in Europe. Recent literature finds that the inclusion-exclusion distinction is insufficiently equipped to do justice to the variety of classifications that is being applied. Instead, a proliferation of refined categorizations determines the outcome of visa and permit applications. This article explores …
Dreaming of Seamless Borders: ICTs and the Pre-Emptive Governance of Mobility in Europe
A recent trend in migration policy in Europe is the increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for border control purposes. A growing academic literature explains the digitisation of border controls as an instance of the post-9/11 securitisation of migration policy. This paper re-examines why European states are digitising their border controls, and then explores how ‘pre-emptive mobility governance’ works. Although securi…
A Case of Mixed Motives: Formal and Informal Functions of Administrative Immigration Detention
In most EU countries and the United States, immigration detention is defined as an administrative, non-punitive measure to facilitate expulsion. This paper argues that immigration detention in the Netherlands serves three informal functions in addition to its formal function as an instrument of expulsion: (1) deterring illegal residence, (2) controlling pauperism and (3) managing popular anxiety by symbolically asserting state control. These info…
Return to sender: Administrative detention of irregular migrants in Germany and the Netherlands
The expulsion of irregular migrants has become a political priority in many (northern) EU member states. In countries such as Germany and the Netherlands this has resulted in a rather puzzling situation in which the capacity for the administrative detention of irregular migrants is increasing, while the number of effective expulsions seems to be decreasing. In this article two theoretical perspectives are used to analyse these developments: a per…
Digital corporate autonomy: Geo-Economics and Corporate Agency in Conflict and Competition
The pervasive informality of the international cybersecurity regime: Geopolitics, non-state actors and diplomacy
The international cybersecurity regime typifies the rise of informality in modern global governance. Despite the increase in sophisticated cyber operations globally, states do not embrace formal multilateral cooperation to prevent and mitigate them. What explains the preference for informal governance in international cybersecurity, and why have non-binding agreements around “responsible behaviour” proliferated in this domain? In introducing a sp…
Pushing boundaries: An empirical view on the digital sovereignty of six governments in the midst of geopolitical tensions
In just a few years, the issue of “digital sovereignty” has emerged as an important security issue for governments across the globe, reflecting a growing unease about the security risks associated with government services that depend on foreign service providers for digital infrastructure and traffic routing. This work investigates to which extent government services and communication with citizens relies on infrastructure outside their own juris…
Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy
This article analyses the evolution and interplay of national policies and international diplomacy on cyber terrorism within and across the UNSC’s permanent five members and the UN process on cyber norms (GGE and OEWG). First, it reveals how – through the extension of preemptive measures to low-impact cyber activities and online content – national policies progressively articulate cyber terrorism as an issue of information security. Second, it pr…
Innocence Lost: Care and Control in Dutch Digital Youth Care
The Dutch National Reference Index is the political answer to public outcry about a number of well-publicised cases in which the tragic deaths of very small children were connected with a failing youth care system. The parallel with the tragic UK case of Victoria Climbié in 2003, which catalysed the reform and digitisation of the UK policy system of child and youth care, is striking. Analysing the development of the index in the Netherlands, we p…
The Demilitarisation of Cyber Conflict
The debate about state behaviour in cyberspace may be set in the wrong legal key
The New Digital Borders of Europe: EU Databases and the Surveillance of Irregular Migrants
This article analyses the development of three EU migration databases and their significance for the internal control of irregular migrants. Because borders and immigration policy alone cannot stop irregular migration, many governments turn to internal migration control on settled irregular migrants. Surveillance of this group is aimed at their exclusion from key societal institutions, discouraging their stay and ultimately, the deportation of ap…
The Fight Against Illegal Migration: Identification Policies and Immigrants' Counterstrategies
In recent years, northern European Union (EU) member states have intensified internal surveillance on irregular migrants. Policy innovation has been geared to controlling, identifying, and even reidentifying irregular migrants who settled within their borders. Policy aims are deterrence, exclusion, and, ultimately, expulsion. Developments in labor market, detention, and expulsion policies and surveillance by the EU immigration database are analyz…
Breaking Down Anonymity: Digital Surveillance of Irregular Migrants in Germany and the Netherlands
List of abbreviations 1 Introduction and research questions 1.1 The irregular migrant as a policy problem 1.2 Turning inwards: internal migration control 1.3 Research questions: internal migration control at crossroads? 1.4 Case selection: Germany and the Netherlands as 'most likely' cases 1.5 Outline of the study 2 The state, surveillance and irregular migrants: theoretical perspectives 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The changing nature of European border…
The State versus the Alien: Immigration Control and Strategies of Irregular Immigrants
In the past decade the Dutch state and the European Union have initiated a number of measures to make the strategies of irregular immigrants more visible in order to exclude, apprehend and expel them more effectively. These measures have limited the scope of irregular immigrants to manoeuvre in the legitimate institutions of society. As a consequence irregular migrants are pushed towards the fringes of legality and beyond. This article discusses …
Return to sender: Administrative detention of irregular migrants in Germany and the Netherlands
The expulsion of irregular migrants has become a political priority in many (northern) EU member states. In countries such as Germany and the Netherlands this has resulted in a rather puzzling situation in which the capacity for the administrative detention of irregular migrants is increasing, while the number of effective expulsions seems to be decreasing. In this article two theoretical perspectives are used to analyse these developments: a per…
A Case of Mixed Motives: Formal and Informal Functions of Administrative Immigration Detention
In most EU countries and the United States, immigration detention is defined as an administrative, non-punitive measure to facilitate expulsion. This paper argues that immigration detention in the Netherlands serves three informal functions in addition to its formal function as an instrument of expulsion: (1) deterring illegal residence, (2) controlling pauperism and (3) managing popular anxiety by symbolically asserting state control. These info…
Innocence Lost: Care and Control in Dutch Digital Youth Care
The Dutch National Reference Index is the political answer to public outcry about a number of well-publicised cases in which the tragic deaths of very small children were connected with a failing youth care system. The parallel with the tragic UK case of Victoria Climbié in 2003, which catalysed the reform and digitisation of the UK policy system of child and youth care, is striking. Analysing the development of the index in the Netherlands, we p…
Dreaming of Seamless Borders: ICTs and the Pre-Emptive Governance of Mobility in Europe
A recent trend in migration policy in Europe is the increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for border control purposes. A growing academic literature explains the digitisation of border controls as an instance of the post-9/11 securitisation of migration policy. This paper re-examines why European states are digitising their border controls, and then explores how ‘pre-emptive mobility governance’ works. Although securi…
In the name of Development: Power, profit and the datafication of the global South
Border surveillance, mobility management and the shaping of non-publics in Europe
Social sorting of migrants and travellers based on data stored in information systems is at the centre of border controls and mobility management in Europe. Recent literature finds that the inclusion-exclusion distinction is insufficiently equipped to do justice to the variety of classifications that is being applied. Instead, a proliferation of refined categorizations determines the outcome of visa and permit applications. This article explores …
The Secret in the Information Society
Who can still keep a secret in a world in which everyone and everything are connected by technology aimed at charting and cross-referencing people, objects, movements, behaviour, relationships, tastes and preferences? The possibilities to keep a secret have come under severe pressure in the information age. That goes for the individual as well as the state. This development merits attention as secrecy is foundational for individual freedom as wel…
Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data
The Demilitarisation of Cyber Conflict
The debate about state behaviour in cyberspace may be set in the wrong legal key
Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy
This article analyses the evolution and interplay of national policies and international diplomacy on cyber terrorism within and across the UNSC’s permanent five members and the UN process on cyber norms (GGE and OEWG). First, it reveals how – through the extension of preemptive measures to low-impact cyber activities and online content – national policies progressively articulate cyber terrorism as an issue of information security. Second, it pr…
Pushing boundaries: An empirical view on the digital sovereignty of six governments in the midst of geopolitical tensions
In just a few years, the issue of “digital sovereignty” has emerged as an important security issue for governments across the globe, reflecting a growing unease about the security risks associated with government services that depend on foreign service providers for digital infrastructure and traffic routing. This work investigates to which extent government services and communication with citizens relies on infrastructure outside their own juris…
In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions
This article analyses the recent use of European Union (EU) terminology of digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy, aiming to identify tensions between policy considerations of fundamental rights, free market principles and geopolitical concerns. These tensions are rooted in the disparity between the EU's considerable economic and regulatory power in digital matters and its limited mandate and capabilities in foreign policy. The article also e…
Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure
The war in Ukraine has underscored the risks and threats to global Internet infrastructure from geopolitically motivated cyber operations. The Domain Name System and core protocols responsible for the routing, forwarding, and security of Internet traffic have been exploited by actors in Russia and Ukraine for denial‐of‐service attacks, surveillance, and censorship. Additionally, states have tried to compel organisations that maintain and govern s…
Cyber intelligence and international security: Breaking the legal and diplomatic silence
In cyberspace intelligence agencies, rather than militaries, are the most prominent security actors. However, many cyber operations conducted by intelligence agencies are not ‘classic’ espionage activities, but may be best described as digital covert action (sabotage, subversion, information operations). Given the fact that international law and diplomacy traditionally do not address espionage, cyber operations conducted by intelligence agencies …
The pervasive informality of the international cybersecurity regime: Geopolitics, non-state actors and diplomacy
The international cybersecurity regime typifies the rise of informality in modern global governance. Despite the increase in sophisticated cyber operations globally, states do not embrace formal multilateral cooperation to prevent and mitigate them. What explains the preference for informal governance in international cybersecurity, and why have non-binding agreements around “responsible behaviour” proliferated in this domain? In introducing a sp…
Digital corporate autonomy: Geo-Economics and Corporate Agency in Conflict and Competition
All Quiet on the Western Front: Strategic Options of Western States for Negotiating a Treaty on International Cyber Security
The debate over a convention on international cyber security is long-standing, but recent developments suggest that treaty negotiations are becoming increasingly plausible. While Western and like-minded states have long opposed negotiations, Russia has consistently advocated for a treaty on ‘international information security’. Past developments, including the United Nations cybercrime negotiations, also initiated by Russia, suggest that resistan…
Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Business (6 works)