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
Aliza Amin is a student Administrator at the Intelligence Project. She is currently in her first year of the Master of Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before beginning graduate school, she was a Policy Associate at Tabadlab for two years in Islamabad, where she was responsible for research, analysis and advisory for digital ecosystems and transformations. Previously, she worked in both academic research and the nonprofit sector in the U.S., Pakistan and Morocco. Aliza graduated from Wellesley College in 2020 with degrees in South Asia Studies and English.
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Email: aamin@hks.harvard.edu