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
Gabrielle (Gabe) Armstrong-Scott is an economist and geopolitical risk consultant. She previously worked at the New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the New Zealand Mission to the United Nations, and in the private sector in New York and Washington, DC. Gabe received a BA from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and an MPE (Economics) from Victoria University’s School of Business and Government, where she received the Excellence Prize, awarded to the top Master’s student. She is currently a Knox Fellow and MPA Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School.
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