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.”
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- Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative
Abbas Al-Mejren
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative (2023-2024)
- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 2019-2020
Yael Berda
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Douglas Causey
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- Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative
Karim Haggag
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- Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative (Spring 2024)
Nadya Hajj
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- Visiting Scholar, Applied History Project
Stephen Kotkin
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- Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative
Hanan Morsy
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David Patel
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- Visiting Scholar
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom
Mohammad Tabaar
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- Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School