Chris Miller

Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Associate Professor of International History

Chris Miller is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip. He is also Associate Professor of International History at the Fletcher School, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia. He is the author of three other books on Russia, including Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his PhD and MA from Yale University and his BA in history from Harvard University. For more information, see www.christophermiller.net.

Sessions With Chris Miller

Thursday, 9 March

Friday, 10 March

  • 11:10am - 11:45am (CST) / 10/mar/2023 05:10 pm - 10/mar/2023 05:45 pm

    Technology, China and the New Security Agenda

    Geopolitics/Policy/Regulatory
    Interconnectivity has become indispensable for success. How do we prevent it from becoming our greatest security liability? The move to interconnected digital systems that use the power of data to generate knowledge, find efficiencies and even reduce emissions is inevitable. Yet hackers have also attacked power plants, airports, industrial sights and gasoline pipelines. Is the exponential growth of cyber risk inevitable? Could it threaten the promise of digital learning and connectivity? How do we build a new security agenda to grasp the promise of interconnectivity and safeguard our future?