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.”
Biography
Pinar Akcayoz De Neve is responsible for launching and leading the EU Sustainability and Energy Initiative at the Environment and Natural Resources Program. She is a graduate of the Masters in Public Administration program at the Harvard Kennedy School, and holds a General Management Masters from the Vlerick School of Business in Belgium.
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