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
Former Associate, Iran Project, November 2016–June 2018
Current Affiliation: Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Doha, Qatar; Researcher, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Freie Universität, Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Research Associate, Centre d’Études de la Coopération Internationale et du Développement, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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