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.”
A conversation with: Elliot Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Council on Foreign Relations & Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Middle East Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Event Speakers: Elliot Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Council on Foreign Relations & Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Middle East Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Event Moderators: Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics Harvard Kennedy School
Event CoSponsors: HKS Middle East Initiative; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs