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.”
10 People
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Kuwait Program Research Fellow (Spring 2023)
Abdullah Alibrahim
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Nasir Almasri
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Peyman Asadzade
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Lotem Bassan-Nygate
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Nadezhda Filimonova
Expertise:
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Christine Gschwendtner
Expertise:
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Rima Majed
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Özgür Özkan
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Ely Sandler
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Sarah Smierciak