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Alternatives to Technopolitique
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Technopolitique. If Technopolitique is the wrong fit at intermediate level, start here.
01 · 2018
Cyber
A strategic analysis of cyber conflict as permanent, sub-threshold warfare — and what France and Europe should do about it — by a former senior French strategist and a consultant.
Intermediate4/5Jean-Louis Gergorin, Léo Isaac-Dognin02 · 2015
Introduction à la cyberstratégie
A foundational French introduction to cyberstrategy — treating cyberspace as a domain of strategic thought — by a former officer and strategy scholar.
Intermediate3/5Olivier Kempf03 · 2014
Cybertactique
The tactical companion to Cyberstratégie — how cyber operations are actually conducted, from planning to execution — by a French officer and strategist.
Intermediate3/5Bertrand Boyer04 · 2013
La cyberstratégie russe
A focused study of Russia's approach to cyberspace — doctrine, actors and information warfare — one of the few French-language books dedicated to a single state's cyberstrategy.
Intermediate3/5Yannick Harrel05 · 2013
Le cyberespace
A collective volume from a French military-strategic colloquium arguing that cyberspace is a genuine new domain of strategic thought — short, dense, and foundational to the French school.
Intermediate3/5Stéphane Dossé, Olivier Kempf, Christian Malis06 · 2012
Cyberstratégie
An early French military-strategic treatment of cyberspace as a theatre of operations — doctrine, deterrence and the determinants of a national cyber policy — by a French officer and strategist.
Intermediate3/5Bertrand Boyer07 · 2020
The Hacker and the State
Ben Buchanan's argument that state-on-state cyber operations are not deterrence-shaped (like nuclear) but signaling-shaped: countries use cyber to shape the environment, not to threaten escalation. Builds the case from declassified incidents.
Beginner5/5Ben Buchanan08 · 2023
A Hacker's Mind
Bruce Schneier extends the security-engineering frame of "hacking" to law, finance, politics, and tax: every rule-based system has exploitable seams, and the wealthy and powerful exploit them constantly.
Beginner4/5Bruce Schneier09 · 2018
The Perfect Weapon
The NYT national security correspondent's account of how cyber weapons became the tool states reach for short of war, from Stuxnet to Russian election interference. Strong on the politics and decision-making, light on the technology.
Beginner4/5David E. Sanger10 · 2021
RGPD et droit des données personnelles
A complete French manual on data-protection law under the GDPR and the 2018 loi Informatique et Libertés — obligations, rights and how to comply — by an engineer and doctor of law.
Intermediate3/5Fabrice Mattatia