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
Grant Golub is an Ernest May Predoctoral Fellow in History and Policy with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He specializes in U.S. grand strategy, diplomatic and international history, the domestic determinants of American foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and how executive branch agencies shape U.S. strategy and policy. His dissertation examines Henry Stimson, the War Department, and the politics of American grand strategy during World War II.
A graduate of Princeton University and LSE, Grant is also a 2022-2023 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center, a Junior Fellow with the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON) hosted by the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Washington foreign policy think tank. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Strategic Studies and The International History Review. His commentary can be found in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The National Interest, Business Insider, Responsible Statecraft, and other outlets. He's a native of Sarasota, Florida.
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