Research
As a digital technology governance expert, my research draws on my social science training in anthropology, global governance, and political science. My research broadly focuses on three thematic areas: global cyber governance, technology interdependence, and the geopolitics of cyber and emerging technologies.
More specifically, my research examines state interventions in the management of specific emerging and transformative digital technologies. For instance, increasing government investment in quantum technologies is often framed as a new form of sovereignty, based on future-forward imaginings of the global commons, the changing roles of actors, and public-private science and technology collaborations among cooperating democratic states.
I collaborate with experts in STEM, industry, and government to produce relevant and impactful research and policy publications for both Canadian and global audiences.
ORCiD is 0000-0002-4074-2602
Global Cyber Governance
Csenkey, Kristen, Aniska Graver, and Indy Ng. in press. "Quadruple Helix Connections Between Quantum Technology Clusters."
Csenkey, Kristen. in press. "Extracting Value from Qubits: Exploring the Process of Assetization of Quantum Technologies as Foreign Policy."
Csenkey, Kristen. in press. "Bridging the gap involves three values: beauty, functionality, and frugality."
Csenkey, Kristen. 2025. "Governing the Risks of Quantum-Enhanced Transportation Systems". Digital Policy Hub Working Paper Series, Centre for International Governance Innovation: Waterloo.
Csenkey, Kristen and Aniska Graver. 2024. "Canada’s National Quantum Strategy One Year On". Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 30(3), 295–306. https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2024.2397970.
Csenkey, Kristen, and Nina Bindel. 2023. "Post-Quantum Cryptographic Assemblages and the Governance of the Quantum Threat". Journal of Cybersecurity 9 (1): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyad001.
Csenkey, Kristen. 2022. "Diverse and Vulnerable: Disconnects in Cyber-Security Governance of IoT". Canadian Defence and Security Paper Series. Canadian Global Affairs Institute. https://www.cgai.ca/diverse_and_vulnerable_disconnects_in_cyber_security_governance_of_iot.
Technology Interdependence
Csenkey, Kristen and Alexis Rapin. in press. "Cybersecurity and Air Power: Keeping Humans in the Loop."
Csenkey, Kristen and LCol (ret.) Jason Furlong. in press. "Cutting Through the Tangled Webs of Civil
and Military Aviation Toward a Practical Cybersecurity Framework."
Csenkey, Kristen. in press. “Insights for Canada: What the Replicator Can Teach Us.”
Csenkey, Kristen, and Alexis Rapin. 2024. "Entre puissance et tension : l’électrification des armées face aux défis de la cybersécurité’" Le Rubicon. 2 May 2024. https://lerubicon.org/entre-puissance-et-tension-lelectrification-des-armees-face-aux-defis-de-la-cybersecurite/.
Csenkey, Kristen, and Alexis Rapin. 2024. "Power And Tension: The Cyber Security Problems of Military Electrification". War on the Rocks. 4 June 2024. https://warontherocks.com/2024/06/power-and-tension-the-cyber-security-problems-of-military-electrification/.
Csenkey, Kristen. 2023. "À Propos of Technology and Innovation". In Managing Security and Defence in the 2020s and Beyond, edited by Ann Fitz-Gerald and Craig Stone. Breakout Educational Network.
Csenkey, Kristen. (ed.). 2020. Simplifying Emerging Technologies: Risks and How to Mitigate Them. Balsillie School of International Affairs: Waterloo, Canada. https://www.naadsn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Simplifying-Emerging-Technologies.pdf.
Geopolitics of Cyber & Emerging Technology
Csenkey, Kristen. in press. "The Geopolitics of Quantum Sensors, Security, and the Mitigation of Climate Change in the Arctic and High North."
Csenkey, Kristen. in press. "Scrambling for Quantum Supremacy in the Global Commons."
Csenkey, Kristen, Julie Clark, Benjamin T. Johnson, and Alexander Landry. 2025. "Strategic Implications of Quantum Sensors and their Application in the Arctic." North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) Policy Brief, 31 March 2025. https://naadsn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/25mar-Strategic-Implications-Quantum-Sensors-Arctic_KC-JC-BTJ-AL-NAADSN-Policy-Brief-EN.pdf
- En français: "La mise en service de capteurs quantiques dans l’Arctique – Implications stratégiques." https://www.naadsn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/25mar-Strategic-Implications-Quantum-Sensors-Arctic_KC-JC-BTJ-AL-NAADSN-Policy-Brief_FR.pdf
Csenkey, Kristen. 2024. "Let’s Get Practical in the Renewed Vision for Canada’s Defence: Thinking through the Real- World Applications of AI, Quantum, and Drone Technologies". North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) Quick Impact, 15 May 2024. https://www.naadsn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KCsenkey_QI_May2024.pdf.
Bindel, Nina, and Kristen Csenkey. 2021. "How Canada Can Prepare for the Quantum Threat". Policy Perspective. Canadian Global Affairs Institute. https://www.cgai.ca/how_canada_can_prepare_for_the_quantum_threat.
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