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.”
While leaders on both sides of the Atlantic appear to lose faith in the transatlantic partnership and continue to turn their focus inward, the list of common, external challenges to peace, stability and economic prosperity appears to be endless.
Join the Belfer Center's Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship in the John F. Kennedy Forum to hear about the current state of affairs between the U.S., Canada and Europe and about ways forward from Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute, Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Susan Glasser, Staff Writer at the New Yorker and Professor Nicholas Burns, Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship.