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
Kadijatou (Kadija) Diallo is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and a Graham T. Allison, Jr. Student Fellow at the Belfer Center. Prior to HKS, Kadija worked in affordable housing, education access, and immigrant rights and migration policy in the U.S and abroad. Her research interests include the role of non-state actors in global governance, international migration policy, and the protection of human rights in the development and regulation of emerging technologies. She graduated magna cum laude from Temple University with B.A in Political Science.
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