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
Andrew Swab graduated with a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in May 2019. At the Kennedy School, he was a teaching assistant for Professors Graham Allison and David Sanger, helping to manage their graduate-level course on national security and the press. He also worked as a research assistant at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he contributed work of the to the Korea Project led by Professor John Park, and published an analytical report with Harvard Law School on the classified U.S. defense and intelligence budget. In summer 2018, he was a Kenneth Juster Fellow in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Critical Infrastructure, where he supported the Department’s efforts to protect U.S. financial sector critical infrastructure from foreign interference. Prior to the Kennedy School, he worked at the U.S. Department of State on embassy security policy, in journalism for PBS NewsHour, and on Capitol Hill. He graduated from Syracuse University with a dual BA in International Relations and Journalism.
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