Sam Forsythe

Doctoral Researcher

Sam Forsythe is a Doctoral Researcher at PRIF’s Research Depart­ment International Security an editorial member of the Science Commu­nication Depart­ment. His research in­terests bring together the study of dis­information, intelligence, and cyber security with interna­tional relations, political theory and the philosophy of science.

Samuel Forsythe
forsythe(at)prif.org

CV

| since 2024
Researcher in the Science Commu­nication Depart­ment at PRIF

| since 2019
Doctoral Researcher at PRIF and at the Cluster of Excellence “Norma­tive Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt/M.

| since 2017
Strategic research consul­tant at Rival Strategy London, UK

| 2017–2018
Master of Arts, War Studies, King's College Lon­don, UK

| 2017
Research assistant at the Depart­ment of War Studies, King's College London, UK

| 2014–2017
Bachelor of Arts, War Studies and Philo­sophie, King's College London, UK

| 2012
Master student of Film & Fine Art, State College of Fine Arts - Städel­schule Frankfurt/M.

Projects

Publications

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Secrecy and Technologies
    | 2024
    Forsythe, Sam; Stevens, Clare (2024): Introduction to the Special Issue on Secrecy and Technologies, Secrecy and Society, 3: 1. DOI: 10.55917/2377-6188.1081
    Publication
  • The war for the future
    | 2020
    Forsythe, Sam; Rößing, Anna (2020): The war for the future, New Perspectives. DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20935234

  • Adversarial Abduction: The Logic of Detection and Deception
    | 2024
    Forsythe, Sam (2024): Adversarial Abduction: The Logic of Detection and Deception, in: Magnani, Lorenzo (eds), Handbook of Abductive Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68436-5_32-1
    Publication

  • Rüstungsdynamiken: Rüstungskontrolle und Desinformation
    | 2023
    Daase, Christopher; Driedger, Jonas J.; Burck, Kristoffer; Fehl, Caroline; Wisotzki, Simone; Forsythe, Sam; Hach, Sascha; Jakob, Una; Schörnig, Niklas; Lambach, Daniel (2023): Rüstungsdynamiken: Rüstungskontrolle und Desinformation, in: onn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2023, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 85-101.
    Publication

Further Activities

| since 2014
Freelance trans­lator (German-English), specia­lized in source texts on cinema, art, philo­sophy and political theory