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
Vladyslav Wallace is a Belfer Young Leader Fellow and a first-year MPP candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a Department of State Thomas R. Pickering Fellow and will be appointed to the U.S. Foreign Service upon graduation. Prior to Harvard, Vladyslav previously held positions at Charities Aid Foundation America, EducationUSA Almaty, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, the U.S. Department of State, and Transparency International Latvia.
Vladyslav was a 2015-2016 National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) Scholar in Moldova, a 2017-2018 Benjamin A. Gilman Scholar in France, and a 2020-2021 David L. Boren Scholar in Kazakhstan—all of where he intensively studied Russian and French. He is from Plano, Texas, and is a proud Ukrainian-born graduate of The University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include human rights, international trade and education, and Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian affairs.