This page contains information on the original datasets and software that I have been developing. For the replication materials of my studies, please visit the GitHub page.
National Cybersecurity Strategies Data (v1.0)
Description: a dataset covering the national cybersecurity strategies of 193 countries from 2000 to 2024.
Website: Github page
Citation: Nadiya Kostyuk, Jen Sidorova, Cyber Chess: Using a New Panel Dataset to Identify Global Patterns in National Cybersecurity-Strategy Adoption,
International Studies Quarterly, Volume 70, Issue 1, March 2026, sqaf097, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf097
xSub: Cross-National Data on Sub-National Violence
Description: a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and contention around the world.
Website: x-sub.org
Citation: Zhukov, Yuri M., Davenport, Christian and Nadiya Kostyuk. "Introducing xSub: A new portal for cross national data on subnational
violence."
Journal of Peace Research (2019), 63:2 (2019): 604-614. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343319836697
Description: R package with tools to download and merge data files from xSub.
Website: CRAN page
Citation: Zhukov, Yuri M., Davenport, Christian and Nadiya Kostyuk. "Introducing xSub: A new portal for cross national data on subnational
violence."
Journal of Peace Research (2019), 63:2 (2019): 604-614. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343319836697
Global Surveillance and Censorship Scores Dataset
Description: latent measurement scores for states' surveillance and censorship practices during the 2010-2020 period.
Citation: Fariss, Chris, Kostyuk, Nadiya and Yuree Noh. “Global Surveillance and Censorship Scores Dataset."
Working Paper. Presented at the 2023 Peace Science Society International Conference.
Indicators of State Cyber Power
Description: latent measurement scores for states' cyber power during the 2010-2020 period.
Citation: Gannon, Andres and Nadiya Kostyuk. “From Bits to Bytes: Measuring state cyber capacity."
Working Paper. Presented at he 2025 Peace Science Society International Conference.
State Cybersecurity Organizations
Description: a stateset of state cybersecurity organizations during the 1967-2025 period.
Citation: Kostyuk, Nadiya. "Going Digital: Introducing the State Cybersecurity Organizations and Policies Dataset."
Working Paper.