Cyber Lecture with Gregory Winger

Dr. Gregory Winger Lecture: Alliances & Technological Change: Cybersecurity in the U.S.-East Asia Alliances

Innovation presents unique challenges to alliances who must adapt to new technological realities to sustain their security prerogatives. Cyber conflict has been emblematic of this process as malicious actors have used cyber means to subvert alliance commitments and reshape security conditions below the threshold of armed attack. Yet, responding to technological change is an institutional as well as strategic process. Alliances must not only contend with adversarial actors, but also develop policies, practices, and capabilities that reflect new technological conditions. This talk explores how this evolutionary process has unfolded in the U.S. alliances with South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. Despite their differences, all three alliances evidence a similar pattern of behavior in addressing cyber conflict. While the United State sets the overall trajectory of cyber cooperation, the Pacific partners exercise considerable agency over the evolutionary process and the extent to which new technological arenas are incorporated within the alliance.

Gregory H. Winger is an assistant professor in the School of Public & International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati and a faculty fellow with the Center for Cyber Strategy & Policy. His research examines cyber conflict as an emerging facet of international competition and how cooperative security mechanisms are being leveraged to redress this novel challenge. Dr. Winger earned his PhD from Boston University, and he has held fellowships with the Pacific Forum, National Asia Research Program, Institute for Human Sciences, and as a Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines. 

Remote participants may join the lecture via Zoom at

https://middlebury.zoom.us/j/98931680548?.pwd=UTRId1VFZGdTVU9tU1NvNG9Jd2VmUT09