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
Katarina de la Rosa is a Belfer Young Leader Student Fellow and Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow as MPP candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to Harvard, Katarina served as a fellow for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Trade Subcommittee, a Research and Policy Assistant at Mercy Corps, a Research Assistant on the Foreign Defense and Trade section at the Congressional Research Center; Economic Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas at El Paso. Katarina is from El Paso, Texas and is an economics and government graduate from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a Terry Scholar. Her research interests include trade, international development, the Western Hemisphere, and foreign policy.
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