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
Cuicui is a postdoctoral fellow in the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center. Trained in environmental economics and industrial organization, Cuicui focuses on the benefit and cost of carbon capture and sequestration and how public policy can best support it. More broadly, Cuicui is interested in the economics of learning and collusion. Cuicui will be an assistant professor of economics at SUNY Albany starting Spring 2019. She obtained her Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard in 2018.
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