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
Jeremy Ney is a dual-degree candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan (MPA/MBA). Prior to grad school he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a macroeconomic policy strategist, focused on forecasting and crisis readiness. After the Fed, Jeremy joined IDEO as an Innovation Fellow to develop products and services oriented around financial inclusion. Jeremy's current research is focused on joining data science with economic policy to combat U.S. income inequality. He holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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