Co-Director
Dr Moritz Weiss
Senior lecturer
LMU Munich 
Moritz Weiss (he) is Senior Lecturer of International Relations and European Studies at LMU Munich. He is Action Chair of 'NetSec'; and also Principal Co-Investigator of the projects ‘The Making of National Security’ (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung) and 'Big Tech and Regulatory Capture' (funded by the Mercator Foundation Switzerland). His research focuses on the governance of European and international security as well as the political economy of digital technologies. He was a visiting professor of international politics at the Leibniz University Hannover and the LMU Munich as well as a Jean-Monnet-Fellow at the EUI in Florence. His research was published in Security Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, Journal of Global Security Studies, Governance, Review of International Political Economy, International Studies Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics and Journal of European Public Policy.
Research themes: International security, governance of new technologies, political economy of defense industries, cybersecurity, platform power
Recent publications
- Bringing society (back) in? Defence transformations across Europe in the Zeitenwende
- Beyond the European Army Illusion: A Prudent Strategy for the Real European Zeitenwende
- Who should be in charge of cyberspace? : the European Union, member states and the constitution of structural power
Conference papers
- Governing cybersecurity and the politics of state control in the digital age
- ’Total Defence’ and Transformations in the Making of European Security
- Business power and the quiet politics of military innovation in cyberspace
- Rules, Expertise, and the Rise of the Regulatory Security State
- The Rise of Cybersecurity Warriors?
- Informal Institutions, Trust and the Design of Privatization
- States vs. Markets in Rising Powers: Functional and Political Sources of Institutional Resilience in India’s Defense Sector