Prof. Joe Burton

Dr Joe Burton is Professor of International Security in the School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University. He joined the university in July 2023 as part of the Security and Protection Science initiative. Joe is the author of NATO's Durability in a Post-Cold War World (SUNY Press, 2018), editor of Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines the State and War (Routledge, 2020), and his work on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security has been published in a range of leading scientific journals, including International Affairs, Journal of Global Security Studies, Technology in Society, Asian Security, Defence Studies, the Cyber Defence Review, the RUSI Journal and Political Science. Dr Burton has served as a ministerial advisor in New Zealand and the UK. He is the coordinator of the CYDIPLO Jean Monnet Network on Cyber Diplomacy and a recipient of the US Department of State (DoS) SUSI Fellowship (New York, Washington D.C.), the Taiwan Fellowship (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taipei), and has been a visiting researcher and lecturer at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn, Estonia. Joe has implemented projects and received funding from the US Department of State, the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme (NATO SPS), NATO CCDCOE, the European Commission (Marie Curie program and Jean Monnet Network lead), the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Alan Turing Institute and the New Zealand Department for Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC). Professor Burton has extensive experience of futures methods, scenario and simulation design, wargaming and has received formal NATO/EU training in this area.