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
Alexandre Strapasson is a former Research Fellow at the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) at Harvard Kennedy School, working on bioeconomy, negative emissions technologies, and the energy-water-food nexus. He is an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London and a Visiting Lecturer at IFP School in France. He is originally from Brazil and has worked on energy and environmental sciences for several years, including as a principal investigator and international consultant. Prior to these experiences, Strapasson was Director and Head of Department of Bioenergy at Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture. He was also a UNDP Consultant for energy, ozone, and climate change at Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment, participating in the UNFCCC negotiations. He is a Chartered Engineer (Agronomy), holding an M.S. in Energy from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Research from Imperial College London. He did two postdocs at Harvard, the first in Sustainability Science as a MATTM Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow and the second in Agriculture and Energy Policy as a Belfer Center Fellow. Strapasson was also an Associate at the Belfer Center and is currently a Member of the Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment (HACE).
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