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
Shahryar Pasandideh is a predoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center's International Security Program and a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at The George Washington University. His research focuses on the implications of the development and diffusion of military technology for international politics, assessments of military power, and the evolving military balance in Asia. He received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in International Relations from the University of Toronto in 2015.
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