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
Andrey Todorov is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative. In 2023 he joined Utrecht University as a researcher working on the ANTARC-SHIP project. He holds a PhD in Law from the Moscow State Linguistic University, with research interests in the Arctic Ocean governance and the international Law of the Sea. He worked in the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he focused mainly on various issues of the International Law of the Sea, in particular, delimitation of maritime areas in the Arctic, combating piracy at sea, legal regime of the seabed areas beyond national jurisdiction, regulation of shipping on the Northern Sea Route, etc. His current research explores issues related to identifying opportunities for enhancing the US-Russia cooperation on shipping regulation in the Bering Strait Region.
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