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.”
22 Experts
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Mohammed Alyahya
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Rabah Arezki
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- 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
Edward P. Djerejian
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Gareth Doherty
- Faculty
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Kristin E. Fabbe
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School
- Associate
- Associate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2015 - 2016
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Director, Homeland Security Project
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Juliette Kayyem
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Rami Khouri