International Security Implications of Cyber Weapons
Dr. Lucas Kello ( Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University )
- 11:00 21st May 2013 ( week 5, Trinity Term 2013 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
Cyber weapons pose unprecedented challenges for international security. The speed and range of the new technology eliminate traditional limitations of geography in the infliction of harm. Ease of proliferation empowers nontraditional and dissatisfied actors. Escalatory ambiguity elevates the risks of accelerating crises even among rational contenders. Some attributes of the cyber danger fit into familiar concepts of force and conflict. Others threaten to upset our postulates. This seminar will assess the implications of the current cyber revolution for international security both as a field of scholarship and as a realm of policy.
Speaker bio
Lucas Kello is a joint post-doctoral research fellow in the International Security Programme and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Programme at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs. He is exploring the implications of cyber weapons for international relations and security. One aspect of his work involves the design of a conceptual framework for the analysis of deterrence and escalation dynamics in the cyber domain, while his policy research focuses on European and NATO institutional responses to emergent cyber threats. Kello holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College as well as a masters and doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University. His doctoral work examined the origins of postwar European unity, specifically the interval of 1947-57. At Harvard, he designs and teaches, with Harvard faculty, postgraduate courses on international cyber security.Share this:
