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
Dr. Chun KaiLeung(梁駿楷) is a former Postdoctoral Fellow with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a former Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s China Center. Since July 2021, Dr. Leung is Associate in Research at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Recognized as a leading expert on the energy policy and geopolitics of China, he has published over 10 original articles in high-impact journals such as Applied Energy, Energy Policy, Eurasian Geography and Economics, and The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law (TJOGEL). He previously worked at Department of War Studies at King's College London, Global Studies Institute in Hong Kong (GSI), and Consulate-General of Kazakhstan to Hong Kong and Macau.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Political and Environmental Geography at Durham University, UK.
His research interests are China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), geopolitics of energy, and global production networks (GPN).
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