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.”
5 People
- 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
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Kristin E. Fabbe
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Director of Research, Evidence for Policy Design, Harvard Center for International Development
Ammar Malik
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Lecturer in Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Harvard Divinity School
Diane L. Moore
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
- Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School