Dr Raluca Csernatoni is a Professor on European security and diplomacy, focusing on new digital technologies, at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), as well as Vesalius College (VeCo), of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. At the CSDS, she is a Senior Researcher on digital technologies for the EU-funded Horizon Europe project, ‘Indo-Pacific-European Hub for Digital Partnerships: Trusted Digital Technologies for Sustainable Well-Being’ (INPACE). She is a Co-leader of the Flemish Research Council (FWO) Research Network on ‘Technology, Security and Conflict’ (2024 -2029).
Csernatoni is currently a Research Fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, Belgium, where she specialises in European security and defence, with a focus on emerging and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI). At Carnegie Europe, she serves as a Team Leader and Senior Researcher on new technologies for the EU-funded project, EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative – EU Cyber Direct (EUCD), and leads Carnegie Europe’s research on ‘The EU’s Techno-Politics of AI’. Csernatoni is also a Co-Leader of the ‘Governance of Emerging Technology’ Research Group with the Centre on Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, Canada.
Between 2022 and 2025, Csernatoni was invited to join as a Visiting Professor on European security, technology, and the future of warfare by the Department of International Relations of Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, Austria. Previously, Csernatoni was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer with the Department of International Relations at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. Csernatoni researched EU security, defence and technological policies at the Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques of Université libre de Bruxelles, the Royal Higher Institute for Defence’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies, and at the International Security Information Service Europe in Brussels. She was also a Research Fellow in the Study Program on European Security at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin, Germany. Csernatoni holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in International Relations from CEU.
Her academic articles appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Global Policy, Geopolitics, European Foreign Affairs Review,European Security, Critical Military Studies, Global Affairs, and European View. Her co-edited book, Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes, was published with Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology Series.
Selected Research
“Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War”, Minds & Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science 35 (2025): 37 – with et al.
“Tech Diplomacy 2.0: Examining the Intersections Between Industry and Governments in International Relations”, International Journal of Cyber Diplomacy, 6 (2025): 3-18 – with Cotroneo, C.
“Tech Diplomacy and the Digital International Order: The Case of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council”, Global Policy (2025) – with Bjola, C.
“Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination”, Geopolitics 20(3) (2023): 849-872 – with Martins, B. O.
“The EU’s Hegemonic Imaginaries: From European Strategic Autonomy in Defence to Technological Sovereignty”, European Security, 31(3) (2022): 395-414.
“The Technology Challenge in the Transatlantic Relationship”, European View, 20(2) (2021): 157-165.
“The Evolving Role of the European External Action Service in Security and Defence”, European Foreign Affairs Review, 26(1) (2021): 87-100.
“New States of Emergency: Normalising Techno-Surveillance in the Time of COVID-19”, Global Affairs, 6(3) (2020): 301-310.
“Drones and Artificial Intelligence: The EU’s Smart Governance in Emerging Technologies”, In R. Csernatoni, C. Lavallée and A. Calcara (eds.) The European Governance of New Security Technologies. Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology, 2020 – with Lavallée, C.
“Between Rhetoric and Practice: Technological Efficiency and Defence Cooperation in the European Drone Sector”, Critical Military Studies 7(2) (2019): 212-236.
Selected Policy Analysis
“Advancing industrial defence cooperation between the EU and Canada: A strategic outlook”, European External Action Service, Delegation of the European Union to Canada, 2025 – with Stone, C.
“The Future of Foreign Policy in the Age of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies”, In A. Salvi, H. Tiirmaa-Klaar, & J. A. Lewis (eds.) Handbook for The Practice of Cyber Diplomacy. EU Cyber Direct – EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative, 2025.
“From Policy to Action: Advancing the EU-ROK Digital Partnership”, CSDS Brussels Policy Brief, INPACE Project, 2025 – with Pejsova, E.
“Can Democracy Survive the Disruptive Power of AI?”, Carnegie Europe Article, 18 December 2024.
“The EU’s Vision for Technological Leadership”, In Rosa Balfour and Sinan Ülgen (eds.)Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union. Carnegie Europe Research Report, 19 November 2024.
“The AI Governance Arms Race: From Summit Pageantry to Progress?”, Carnegie Europe Article, 7 October 2024.
“Governing Military AI Amid a Geopolitical Minefield”, Carnegie Europe Article, 17 July 2024.
“How to future-proof NATO’s defence innovation and EDT strategy”, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Commentary, 17 July 2024.
“Innovative: Keeping the technological edge in the area of security and defence”. Chapter in the European Parliament Briefing requested by SEDE Subcommittee on ‘Sovereign, Capable, Innovative, Responsive: Prospects and challenges for EU security and defence policy in the 10th parliamentary term’, 5 July 2024 – with Martins, B.O.
“Charting the Geopolitics and European Governance of Artificial Intelligence”, Carnegie Europe Long Report, 6 March 2024.
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