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.”
5 Experts
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Youssef Chahed
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Jeffrey Frankel
Expertise:
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2015 - 2016
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Adel Hamaizia
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Meghan L. O'Sullivan