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 public address by Dr. Salam Fayyad, MEI Senior Fellow and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (2007-2013).
Co-sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics.
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Salam Fayyad
Salam Fayyad
- Former Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2018-2019