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.”
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- 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
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- 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:
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- Associate
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, International Security Program, 2011–2013
- Former Associate, Applied History Project
Pierpaolo Barbieri
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Current Affiliation:
Founder, Ualá, and Executive Director, Greenmantle
- 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
Expertise:
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2021–February 2022
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2020–2021
Abolghasem Bayyenat
- 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
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program
Matthew Borawski
- Staff
- Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2017–2018, 2019–2020
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2016–2017
Mariana Budjeryn
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