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.”
10 Experts
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Rabah Arezki
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
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- United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
- Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
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- Faculty Chair, Future of Diplomacy Project
- Faculty Chair, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Director, American Secretaries of State Project
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Nicholas Burns
Expertise:
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Edward P. Djerejian
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Gareth Doherty
- Associate
- Associate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2015 - 2016
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar
- Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Yuree Noh
- Associate
- Former Associate, Middle East Initiative, 2018-2019
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, 2017-2018
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Elizabeth Nugent
- Research Fellow
- Visiting Scholar
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom
Mohammad Tabaar
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Amos Yadlin