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.”
21 Experts
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Abdulkhaleq Abdulla
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Nasir Almasri
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2023-2024)
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Lotem Bassan-Nygate
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
- Acting Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Chair, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Melani Cammett
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Youssef Chahed
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Edward P. Djerejian
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Kristin E. Fabbe
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School
- Faculty
- Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Marshall Ganz
- Faculty
- Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Rema Hanna