Ryan C. Maness is a Visiting Fellow of security and resilience studies in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. Before that, he was Visiting Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at SUNY at Buffalo State College (2014-2015), Adjunct Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (2014), and Graduate Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (2012-2013).
Obtaining his PhD degree in Political Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Maness has published peer-reviewed articles in Journal of Peace Research, Armed Forces and Society, and Journal of Slavic Military Studies, as well as in Foreign Affairs. He has recently completed two books, Cyber War versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Cyber, Energy and Maritime Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). His main focus is the continuation of an empirical cyber incident and dispute dataset and Russian energy policies in post-Soviet space. His new book project uses content analysis to study the concept of state coercion in cyberspace.