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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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Youssef Chahed
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Edward P. Djerejian
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center
- Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Paula J. Dobriansky
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dr. Karen Donfried
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Kristin E. Fabbe
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Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Salam Fayyad
- 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
- Staff
- Program and Communications Coordinator
Sam Himmelman
- Fellow
- Fellow, Belfer Center
- Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
Karl Kaiser
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