Rate My Professor Marijn Hoijtink

Her research integrates International Relations, critical security studies, and science and technology studies to explore the mutual shaping of war and technology. Core interests encompass military technology, AI-enabled and algorithmic warfare, the changing character of warfare, experimentation in warfare, digital platforms and warfare, private security, big tech in security, and gender and security. She leads prominent projects such as PLATFORM WARS (2024-2029), examining the platform model’s expansion in defense innovation, procurement, warfighting practices, regulation, and ethics; Realities of Algorithmic Warfare (2025-2028, co-led with Lauren Gould), analyzing algorithmic decision-making in targeting, civilian harm in Ukraine and Gaza, and accountability tools; Weaponizing AI for Democracy (2025-2026); Start-Up Warfare (2024-2028); the global arms lab (2024-2026); and the Belgian Network for Research on Technology, Security and Conflict (2024-2028). Hoijtink has published in top journals including Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, European Journal of International Security, and Minds and Machines. Key works include the book Technology and Agency in International Relations (2019); ‘Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google’s Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow’ (2022); ‘Prototype Warfare: Innovation, Optimisation, and the Experimental Way of Warfare’ (2022); ‘Whose (In)Security? Gender, Race and Coloniality in European Security Policies’ (2023); and ‘Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War’ (2025). She teaches Europe in a Global Order and supervises bachelor theses in Political Science.