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
Ameni Mehrez is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative politics at the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations at Central European University (CEU). She is a Junior Fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). She is the chair of the Middle East and North Africa Space (MENAS) at CEU, the co-principal investigator of the Arab Elections project, and she was the co-principal investigator of a post-election survey fielded in Tunisia, which will contribute to the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). She is currently a member of the CSES Module 7 Planning Committee. She was a visiting fellow at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University. She is running large-scale studies in Tunisia and other countries for her research in comparative politics. Her main areas of expertise are public opinion surveys, automated text analysis, and political ideologies in the Arab World.
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