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.”
51 People
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Abdulkhaleq Abdulla
Current Affiliation:
Middle East Initiative
- Fellow
- Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Serkant Adiguzel
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, Fall 2021
- Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, 2020-2021
Sultan Al Qassemi
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Nasir Almasri
- Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
- Former Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, 2019-2020
Marsin Alshamary
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Mohammed Alyahya
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Rabah Arezki
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Peyman Asadzade
- Senior Fellow
- Kuwait Program Senior Fellow
Ghadeer Aseri
- Fellow
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative
Lotem Bassan-Nygate