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.”
56 Experts
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Gareth Doherty
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Kristin E. Fabbe
- Faculty
- Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Marshall Ganz
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative