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.”
14 People
- 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
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2015 - 2016
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Adel Hamaizia
- Faculty
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Asim Khwaja
- Staff
- Research Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
Marina Lorenzini
- Faculty Director
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance
- Faculty Chair, Middle East Initiative
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Tarek Masoud
Expertise:
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2023-2024)
- Former Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2022 - 2023)
Özgür Özkan
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Associate, Iran Project
- Former Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, Fall 2013, 2016-2017
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
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