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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- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- Senior Fellow
- Kuwait Program Senior Fellow
Ghadeer Aseri
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2023-2024)
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Lotem Bassan-Nygate
- Faculty
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Allston Burr Resident Dean of Kirkland House and Assistant Dean of Harvard College
- Lecturer in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Soha Bayoumi
Expertise:
- 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
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Claude Bruderlein
- 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