Arun Sukumar

Arun Sukumar is assistant professor of international relations at Ashoka University. He was previously an assistant professor (on permanent contract) at Leiden University, where he was also affiliated as a researcher with the Hague Program on International Cybersecurity. He holds a PhD and MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a bachelor’s in law (BA LLB) from NALSAR University of Law, India. At Fletcher, Arun was a recipient of the Leo Gross Prize for Outstanding Student of International Law.

Arun is the author of Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India (Penguin RandomHouse India, 2019) which chronicled political debates in independent India around the introduction of new and disruptive technologies. Midnight’s Machines was listed among Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2020, shortlisted for the 2020 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Book Prize for Non-Fiction, and won the 2019 Ramnath Goenka Award for best work of non-fiction.

Arun is the co-editor of Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023) and Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace: Global Narratives and Practice (Publications Office of the European Union, 2023). His research has been published in Contemporary Security Policy, Policy & Internet, IEEE- CyCon proceedings, Journal of Cyber Policy, and other journals. He is also a contributor to the Oxford Handbook on Cyber Security.