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
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Youssef Chahed
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Edward P. Djerejian
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Adel Hamaizia
- 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
- Board of Directors
- Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Energy
- Biofuels
- U.S. energy policy
- Oil
- Nuclear power
- India energy policy
- Energy security
- Energy R&D
- Energy Innovation policy
- Energy conservation
- Coal, Carbon Capture, & Storage
- China energy policy
- Environment & Climate Change
- Air pollution
- Climate change policy
- Natural resource management
- Environmental policy
- Nuclear waste
Henry Lee
Expertise:
- Staff
- Research Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
Marina Lorenzini
- 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
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2023 - 2024)
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program (2022–2023)
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program (2014–2017)
Daniel Sobelman
- Research Fellow
- Visiting Scholar
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom
Mohammad Tabaar