The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Dr. Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, will discuss the path from negotiations to implementation of the Paris Climate Conference and resulting Agreement.