Cynthia Mehboob
Biography
Publications
Cynthia Mehboob is a PhD Scholar based at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. Her research interrogates the international security politics of submarine cables in the Indo-Pacific region. She can be reached via email at cynthia.mehboob@anu.edu.au.
Meta’s Waterworth: Should we be hyperventilating about hyperscalers’ hyper-infrastructure?
Imagine a sleek, shadowy form of statecraft, no longer bound by flags but by fibre optics.
Vanuatu’s digital vulnerability
Who will fund Vanuatu's second cable?
NATO’s best-laid subsea cable security plans
The latest suspected attack indicates NATO needs a new cable protection strategy for European waters.
What lies beneath: There’s more to cables than geopolitics
The undersea cable industry is left to tackle the challenges, while policymakers engage in national security power plays.
Beijing’s Baltic confession exposes undersea vulnerability
While China claims a blunder, its ship cutting a pipeline and cable last year leaves transparency questions aplenty.
Australia’s big tech defence cloud: Too big to fail?
Trusting the country’s digital defence capabilities to one company is a potential threat to national security.
The cable shortage: Plugging in offshore wind farms
Australia must consider the bigger risks as well as the opportunity of a shift to renewable energy.
