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.”
119 People
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Abdulkhaleq Abdulla
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (Spring 2024)
Yasmeen Abu Fraiha
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative (2023-2024)
- Former Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Serkant Adiguzel
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Kuwait Program Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative (Spring 2022)
Eisa Al Nashmi
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, Fall 2021
- Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, 2020-2021
Sultan Al Qassemi
- Faculty
- Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Joseph E. Aldy
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Layane Alhorr
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Pouya Alimagham
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Nasir Almasri
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Former Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, 2019-2020