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.”
13 People
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative (2023-2024)
- Former Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Serkant Adiguzel
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- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Kuwait Program Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative (Spring 2022)
Eisa Al Nashmi
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- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Pouya Alimagham
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Former Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, 2019-2020
Marsin Alshamary
- 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
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- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Gareth Doherty
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Kristin E. Fabbe
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- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2015 - 2016
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar
- 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
- Former Fellow, Middle East Initiative