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 seminar with Nisreen Haj-Ahmad, Research Fellow at Harvard's Ash Center and Co-founder of Ahel and Mujtama3i and Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and MEI Faculty Affiliate, on community organizing campaigns in the Middle East.
Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
