Ahana Datta Fasel advises governments and companies globally on geopolitical, technology, and systemic risk. Previously the Financial Times’ cyber chief, she has held senior cyber roles in the UK government, serving the Ministry of Justice, the Cabinet Office, and the National Cyber Security Centre. She is a strategic advisor on national security and defence to UK Research and Innovation and a trustee of Privacy International. She has held visiting fellowships at Cornell, Cambridge, Imperial and Durham, and her editorials have appeared in Foreign Policy, FT, and Columbia Journalism Review. She holds a PhD from University College London.

‘This deeply researched book shows how great power competition in the digital age call into question established concepts of strategic stability with grave implications for liberal democracies.’

• Introduction PART ONE TRADECRAFT 1. Upstairs, Downstairs 2. Never Knowingly Undersold 3. "We Have a Budget for This" 4. "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." 5. Kingmakers PART TWO STATECRAFT 6. The Attacker's Creed 7. Fish and Chips 8. Cooperate, Confront, Compete 9. Wired for Mistrust PART THREE INSTABILITY 10. With Great Power 11. War and Not War 12. Weapons of an Uneasy Peace 13. The Second Move Notes Extended Bibliography

Ahana Datta Fasel advises governments and companies globally on geopolitical, technology, and systemic risk. Previously the Financial Times’ cyber chief, she has held senior cyber roles in the UK government, serving the Ministry of Justice, the Cabinet Office, and the National Cyber Security Centre. She is a strategic advisor on national security and defence to UK Research and Innovation and a trustee of Privacy International. She has held visiting fellowships at Cornell, Cambridge, Imperial and Durham, and her editorials have appeared in Foreign Policy, FT, and Columbia Journalism Review. She holds a PhD from University College London.

‘This deeply researched book shows how great power competition in the digital age call into question established concepts of strategic stability with grave implications for liberal democracies.’

• Introduction PART ONE TRADECRAFT 1. Upstairs, Downstairs 2. Never Knowingly Undersold 3. "We Have a Budget for This" 4. "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." 5. Kingmakers PART TWO STATECRAFT 6. The Attacker's Creed 7. Fish and Chips 8. Cooperate, Confront, Compete 9. Wired for Mistrust PART THREE INSTABILITY 10. With Great Power 11. War and Not War 12. Weapons of an Uneasy Peace 13. The Second Move Notes Extended Bibliography