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
Taiki Morita was a Graham Allison Fellow at the Belfer Center, and a joint degree student at Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to graduate school, Taiki served in the Japanese Foreign Service as a diplomat focusing on North Korea, where he was involved in national security, negotiations, and sanctions. He also has extensive experience in investing and finance, working in Private Equity and Public Equity investing. His interests are in national security, macroeconomics, finance, and in strengthening transpacific ties. A true global citizen, he has lived in NYC, CT, DC, MA, CA, Paris, Le Havre, and Tokyo. Taiki holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris and Keio University, and an MBA from Stanford. He is trilingual in English, Japanese, and French.
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