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
Renanah Miles Joyce is a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center's International Security Program and MIT's Security Studies Program. Her current research explores the ways that great powers shape security and achieve influence in the developing world. Her book project, Exporting Might and Right, examines the effectiveness of security assistance as a great power tool to shape military norms and behavior. Renanah received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2020. She was previously a predoctoral fellow in the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. Before graduate school, she worked for the U.S. Department of Defense as a program analyst.
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