Publications

Articles

Nadiya Kostyuk & Ryan Shandler. (2025). Attention Beyond the Battlefield: Voters' Responses to Foreign Military Investments. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 1-18.

Ryan Shandler. (2025). Cyber Conflict & Domestic Audience Costs. International Interactions, 1–25.

Pepper Culpepper, Ryan Shandler, Jae-Hee Jung & Taeku Lee. (2025). Media Coverage of Inequality, Fairness Considerations, and Support for Redistribution in Six Countries. Comparative Political Studies, 58(4): 714-745.

Snider, Keren, Ryan Shandler & Daphna Canetti. (2025). Experimenting with Threat: How Cyberterrorism Targeting Critical Infrastructure Influences Support for Surveillance Policies. Terrorism & Political Violence, 1-14.

Eric Jardine, Nathaniel Porter & Ryan Shandler. (2024). Cyberattacks and Public Opinion – The Effect of Uncertainty in Guiding Preferences. Journal of Peace Research, 61(1): 103-118.

Ryan Shandler & Daphna Canetti. (2024). Special Issue Introduction: Cyber Conflict – Moving From Speculation to Investigation. Journal of Peace Research, 61(1): 3-9.

Dor, Gal, Ryan Shandler, Miguel Gomez & Daphna Canetti. (2024). Fear over facts: how preconceptions explain perceptions of threat following cyberattacks. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 1 - 16. 

Miguel Gomez & Ryan Shandler. (2024). Trust at Risk: The Effect of Proximity to Cyber Attacks. Journal of Global Security Studies, 9(2): ogae002.

Ryan Shandler, Nadiya Kostyuk & Harry Oppenheimer. (2023). Public Opinion and Cyberterrorism. Public Opinion Quarterly, 87(1) : 92-119.

Ryan Shandler, Michael L. Gross & Daphna Canetti. (2023). Cyberattacks, Psychological Distress, and Military Escalation: An Internal Meta-Analysis. Journal of Global Security Studies, 8(1) : 1-19.

Ryan Shandler & Miguel Gomez. (2022). The Hidden Threat of Cyber-Attacks --- Undermining Public Confidence in Government. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 20(4): 359-374.

Ryan Shandler, Michael L. Gross, Sophia Backhaus & Daphna Canetti. (2022) Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation: A Multi-Country Survey Experiment. British Journal of Political Science, 52(2): 850-868. 

Ryan Shandler, Michael L. Gross, & Daphna Canetti. (2021). A Fragile Public Preference for Cyber Strikes: Evidence from Survey Experiments in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Contemporary Security Policy, 42(2): 135-162. 

Claire Lee, Kyung-Shick Choi, Ryan Shandler & Chris Kayser. (2021) Mapping Global Cyberterror Networks: A Empirical Study of Al-Qaeda and ISIS Cyberterrorism Events. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 37(3): 333-355. 

Keren Snider, Shai Zandani, Ryan Shandler & Daphna Canetti. (2021). Cyber Terrorism, Cyber Threats and Attitudes toward Cybersecurity Policies. Journal of Cybersecurity, 7(1): tyab2019.

Ryan Shandler, Michael L. Gross & Daphna Canetti. (2019). Can You Engage in Political Activity Without Internet Access? The Social Effects of Internet Deprivation. Political Studies Review, 18(4), 620-629.

Ryan Shandler & Daphna Canetti. (2019). A Reality of Vulnerability and Dependence: Internet Access as a Human Right. Israel Law Review, 52(1), 77-98. 

Working Papers & Publications Under Review

Pepper Culpepper, Taeku Lee & Ryan Shandler. Did Media Coverage of the FTX Scandal Affect Public Attitudes on Cryptocurrency? Under Review.

Ryan Shandler & Kerry Chavez. A Structural Shift in Foreign Policy Postures: Public Opinion in an Age of Emerging Technologies. Under Review.

Pepper Culpepper, Ryan Shandler & Taeku Lee. The Political Consequences of Corporate Scandals: Focusing Events, Partisanship, and Attitudes on Cryptocurrency. Under Review.

Nick Evans, Michael Gross & Ryan Shandler. Between Biology and Battlefields: Revealing an International Consensus on the Ethics of Enhanced Warfighters. Under Review.

Ryan Shandler, Iris Ong, Olivia Leu, Anthony DeMattee. Hacking Voters Trust in Elections. Under Review.

Book Chapters & Other Scientific Publications

Miguel Gomez, Grace Mueller, Ryan Shandler, Brandon Valeriano & Chris Whyte.  (2024). The Need for Topical and Methodological Diversity in Cyber Conflict Research, in Research Handbook on Cyberwarfare., Eds. Tim Stevens & Joe Devanny. 

Ryan Shandler, Keren Snider & Daphna Canetti.  (2022). The Political Psychology of Cyber Terrorism, in The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology, Eds. Danny Osborne & Chris G. Sibley. 

Ryan Shandler. (2019) Book Review: The age of surveillance capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power, Journal of Cyber Policy, 4(2), 303-304.

Keren Snider, Ryan Shandler, Sharon Matzkin & Daphna Canetti. (Forthcoming).  The Psychology of Terrorism and Political Violence, in The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, 3rd Ed., Eds. Leonie Huddy, David Sears, Jack Levy, and Jennifer Jerit. 

Ryan Shandler.  (2018) Measuring the Political and Social Implications of Government-Initiated Cyber Shutdowns." In 8th {USENIX} Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet ({FOCI} 18). USENIX} Association}.

News Media, Op-Eds & Policy White Papers

Ryan Shandler, Anthony DeMattee & Bruce Schneier (2025). Cyberattacks shake voters’ trust in elections, regardless of party. Atlanta Journal Constitution. 27 June 2025. 

Ryan Shandler, Daphna Canetti & Tal Mimran. (2024). A look inside the cyberwar between Israel and Hamas reveals the civilian toll. The Conversation. 3 May 2024. 

Ryan Shandler & Miguel Gomez. (2022). Cyber Conflict and the Erosion of Trust. Council on Foreign Relations, Net Politics. 21 September 2022. 

Ryan Shandler, Gal Dor & Daphna Canetti. (2022). The Insidious Political Consequences of Cyberattacks. Political Violence @ a Glance. 13 September 2022. 

Ryan Shandler. (2020). The pandemic shows we depend on the Internet. So is Internet access a human right? Monkey Cage | The Washington Post. 13 July 2020. 

Ryan Shandler. (2019). White Paper: Israel as a Cyber Power. Produced for the Israel National Cyber Bureau. July 2019.