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About John Sakellariadis

John Sakellariadis is a 2021-2022 Fulbright US Student Research Grantee. He holds a Master’s degree in public policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia and a Bachelor’s degree in History & Literature from Harvard University.

NBN Episodes hosted by John:

National Security April 29, 2022

Chinese Communist Espionage

An Intelligence Primer

Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
In Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer (Naval Institute Press, 2019), authors Mathew Brazil and Peter Mattis present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage. An introduction-cum-reference …
National Security December 9, 2021

The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East

James Shires

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
How has “cybersecurity” become a catch-all for everything that touches our digital world? In his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East (Hurst, 2021), Dr. James Shires …
National Security November 22, 2021

Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons

Herbert Lin

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
What does America’s growing dependence on modern information technology systems mean for the management of its nuclear weapons? In his new book, Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons (Stanford University Press …
National Security September 29, 2021

Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru

Silencing Civil Society

Jo-Marie Burt

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
These days, anyone paying close attention to Peru is awash in déjà vu: the ghosts of Peru’s once-brutal war with the Maoist insurgent group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) have resurfaced …
National Security August 27, 2021

Nonstate Warfare

The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

Stephen Biddle

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
From the Taliban to Hezbollah, armed nonstate actors and civil warfare have dominated the US national security debate for much of the last 20 years. Yet, most analysis shares a …
National Security July 21, 2021

Power and Complacency

American Survival in an Age of International Competition

Phillip T. Lohaus

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Why has the United States, the world’s premier military and economic power, struggled recently to achieve its foreign policy desiderata? How might America’s leaders reconsider the application of power for …
National Security May 13, 2021

Bullets Not Ballots

Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare

Jacqueline L. Hazelton

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Why do liberal great powers like the United States struggle to defeat insurgencies across the globe? In her new book, Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare (Cornell University Press …
National Security April 28, 2021

Behind the Enigma

The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

John Ferris

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
For more than a hundred years, Britain’s signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, has played a central role in the conduct of British statecraft. But the organization has traditionally operated from the …
National Security February 26, 2021

Reset

Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

Ronald J. Deibert

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Ronald Deibert is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Director of The Citizen Lab, a public interest research organization that uncovers privacy and human …
National Security February 18, 2021

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Nicole Perlroth

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
For years, cybersecurity experts have debated whether cyber-weapons represent a destabilizing new military technology or merely the newest tool in the spy’s arsenal. In This Is How They Tell Me …
National Security February 10, 2021

How to Lose the Information War

Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

Nina Jankowicz

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Barely a month after the riot on the Capitol Building, the United States is no more adept at fending off foreign information operations than it was four years ago, when …
National Security December 2, 2020

One Belt One Road

Chinese Power Meets the World

Eyck Freymann

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty. How can something so large be …
National Security November 11, 2020

The Internet in Everything

Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch

Laura DeNardis

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Most people recognize that the internet is growing at an exponential rate. But few have thought as deeply as Laura DeNardis, a Professor and Interim Dean at the School of …
National Security November 3, 2020

The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution

Power Politics in the Atomic Age

Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
In The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age (Cornell University Press, 2020), Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press tackle the central puzzle of the …
National Security October 7, 2020

Information Technology and Military Power

Jon Lindsay

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Many assume that information technology will one day clear away the “fog of war.” But as Jon Lindsay shows in Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell UP, 2020), the digitization …