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 panel discussion on the recent protests in Lebanon and Iraq, featuring Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative & PhD Candidate in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Jeffrey G. Karam, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lebanese American University and Associate, Middle East Initiative, Dr. Shamiran Mako, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, and Christiana Parreira, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford University.
