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
Sudarshana Chanda is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Harvard University. Her dissertation project studies the intimate life of racial categories such as "Chinese/Indian/Malay/Eursasian'' employed in British Malaya (present day Malaysia and Singapore) in the 20th century. She looks at interracial adoption, marriage, repatriation of mixed families, etc., to study what happens when people fall in between categories and spaces. In a policy context, her work reveals how citizens and immigrants navigate social policies and disrupt official categorizations in their lived experience.
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