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.”
25 People
- Fellow
- Fellow, Middle East Initiative (Spring 2024)
Yasmeen Abu Fraiha
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Pouya Alimagham
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- Faculty
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Allston Burr Resident Dean of Kirkland House and Assistant Dean of Harvard College
- Lecturer in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Soha Bayoumi
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
- Acting Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Chair, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Melani Cammett
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Youssef Chahed
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Edward P. Djerejian
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Kristin E. Fabbe
- Fellow
- Non-Resident Fellow, Intelligence Project
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, Cyber Project
Jeff Fields
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2015 - 2016