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
Allison Agsten is a journalist-turned-curator whose work explores the intersection of visual culture and public engagement. In 2019 she authored a paper on housing and workspace affordability for artists in Los Angeles which led her to the Harvard Kennedy School, where she earned a Master of Public Administration degree in the mid-career program. While at HKS, Agsten was awarded funding by the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative to study the lack of representation of Indigenous people in Arctic climate change news coverage. Her current research for the Arctic Initiative focusses on Indigenous representation in university settings.
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