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.”
72 Experts
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (Spring 2024)
Yasmeen Abu Fraiha
Expertise:
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Pouya Alimagham
Expertise:
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Former Director, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Future of Diplomacy Project
- Conflict & Conflict Resolution
- Weak/Failed states
- Energy security
- Coronavirus
- Governance
- Middle East policy
- International Relations
- U.S. foreign policy
- U.S. primacy
- United Nations
- NATO
- International Security & Defense
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Preventive defense
- Security Strategy
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- National security economics
- NATO
- Military policy
- Chemical & biological weapons
- Afghanistan war
- Military intervention
- Democracy
- Homeland security
- Iraq war
- Nuclear Issues
- Dirty bombs
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear weapons
- Russia nuclear program
Graham Allison
Expertise:
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
- Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2013–2016
- Former Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center, 2010–2016
- Former Associate Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center, 2012–2016
Laura Diaz Anadon
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy, University of Cambridge
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- Fellow
- Fellow, Korea Project/Applied History Project
Jieun Baek
Expertise:
- Senior Visiting Scholar, Korea Project
Taeho Bark
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program (ISP), 2012–2014; Former Associate, ISP, 2009–2012; Former Research Fellow, ISP, 2007–2009
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Vincent K. Brooks
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program
Zachary Burdette