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.”
Biography
Kim Guiler is a former research fellow at the Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative (2018-2019). Her research interests include political psychology and voting behavior; religion and politics; Islamist movements; hybrid regimes; and experimental, qualitative, and survey methodologies. She is currently working on a book manuscript that asks why some identity-based political parties are able to build support beyond core, in-group supporters while others fail to do so. Empirically, the manuscript explores how the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey and Al-Nahda in Tunisia built diverse coalitions and moved from the Islamist fringes of society to the political core. Her research has been supported by the Boren Fellowship, the Department of Education, the Project on Middle East Political Science, and the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin. Kim will receive her doctorate in Government from the University of Texas at Austin (expected fall 2018), and holds an MA degree from the University of Chicago, and BA and BS degrees from the University of Florida.
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