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
The following is Álvaro Renedo's biography when he was affiliated with the Project in the 2019-20 academic year.
Álvaro Renedo was Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain from 2016 to 2018. During that period, he served as the Spanish Sous-sherpa both in the European Union and the G20, and was responsible for European policy (bilateral and inter-EU policy) and G20 policy within the Cabinet Office of the Spanish Government.
A career diplomat since 2006, he has held different positions in the field of European policy (Senior Advisor in the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government; Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of State for the European Union; Deputy to the Director-General of General Affairs and the Coordination of Policies related to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in the Secretary of State for the European Union; and Advisor on Parliamentary Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of State for the European Union, amongst other positions).
From 2014 to 2016, he was Associate Professor in the Complutense University of Madrid (Department of Public International Law and International Relations), where he was senior lecturer in the following Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree courses: Legal and political systems of the European Union; Structure and dynamics of the international community; History of Spain’s foreign policy; and Research methods and techniques in international affairs. He has also been a frequent guest lecturer in the University of Salamanca, the University of Valencia, the University of Seville, the University of Cadiz, the Pontifical University of Comillas, the Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies, the Spanish Lower House of Parliament, the Diplomatic Academy of Spain, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the Budapest Security Conference, amongst other institutes.
He is the author of the following studies: “The evolution of the legislative and budgetary powers of the European Parliament: theory and praxis in communitarian democracy” (On Diplomacy and International Relations, vol. I, Publications of the Spanish Diplomatic Academy, Spain, 2008); and “The Spanish Presidency of the European Union and the fight against child poverty and social exclusion” (Child Poverty and Social Exclusion. Building equity... childhood development. Comillas Pontifical University, Child Platform, Spain, 2012).
Mr. Renedo holds a Law Degree and Business diploma, from ICADE Law and Business School (Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid).
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