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
Justine Bailliart is a Belfer Young Leader and a first year Master's candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before Harvard, she served with the United Nations Development Programme in Dili, Timor-Leste where she managed and coordinated project activities on ending violence against women and girls as well as on Parliamentary strengthening. She has been an Economic Diplomacy Analyst at Entreprise & Diplomatie, and a Project Support Assistant at the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (London School of Economics). Justine graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a B.Sc. in International Relations and History. Her research interests include gender and conflict, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction. Justine is fluent in French, English and Portuguese.
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