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.”
11 Experts
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- 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
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Youssef Chahed
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Edward P. Djerejian
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Director, Homeland Security Project
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Juliette Kayyem
- Faculty
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Asim Khwaja
- Faculty Director
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance
- Faculty Chair, Middle East Initiative
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Tarek Masoud
Expertise:
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Lecturer in Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Harvard Divinity School
Diane L. Moore
- Research Assistant, Middle East Initiative
Omer Niazi
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2023-2024)
- Former Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2022 - 2023)
Özgür Özkan