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.”
Bringing the Global Community to the Table: Paris 2015 UN Climate Change Conference
Moderator(s):Candy Crowley
Daniel Bodansky
Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Coral Davenport
Energy and Environmental Policy Correspondent, New York Times
Drew Faust
President, Harvard University
Zou Ji
Deputy Director, China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy (NCSC)
Robert Stavins
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Candy Crowley (Moderator)
Institute of Politics Resident Fellow, Fall 2015
Former Chief Political Correspondent, CNN