Ambassador Samantha Power to Receive 2019 Moynihan Prize in Social Science...
Jan 24, 2019Former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power, Belfer Center-based Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will receive the...
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Project on Managing the Atom Releases New Report, "Revitalizing Nuclear...
Jan 29, 2019In their new report, “Revitalizing Nuclear Security in an Era of Uncertainty,” Matthew Bunn, Nickolas Roth, and William Tobey document the global community’s continuing steps to improve...
View ArticleBelfer Center Ranked World’s No. 1 University Think Tank
Feb 4, 2019For the sixth year in a row, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has been ranked the best university-affiliated research center in the world. The...
View ArticleNew Report Focuses on NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis
Feb 14, 2019As the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) approaches, the world’s oldest and most successful military alliance of democratic nations faces serious and complex...
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Say WHAT? — A Case of Low-Yield Nuclear Thinking
Feb 14, 2019Can a small nuclear weapon really make the world safer? In this installment of “Say WHAT?”—the Bulletin video series that casts a clear eye on fuzzy policy—we ask nuclear weapons expert...
View ArticleDoes Venture Capital Have a Public Purpose Responsibility for Tech Startups?
Feb 19, 2019On February 19, the Technology and Public Purpose Project (TAPP) convened the second session of the spring semester for the Boston Tech Hub Faculty Working Group. This monthly meeting...
View ArticleNorth Korea Experts Preview Second Trump-Kim Summit
Feb 25, 2019In advance of the Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi February 27-28, Belfer Center experts offer a reality check on the negotiation over nuclear issues.
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Reactions to Collapse of Trump-Kim Summit 2019
Feb 28, 2019Following the breakdown of the Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi, Belfer Center Korea experts Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Martin Malin, Joseph Nye, Gary Samore, Wendy Sherman, and Jon Wolfsthal...
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Professor Robert Stavins Named Among the Most Influential People in Climate...
Mar 26, 2019Robert N. Stavins, the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School, has been named one of the world’s most influential people in climate policy by...
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Climate One at Harvard: John Holdren and Gina McCarthy
Mar 27, 2019Join us for a special recording of the Climate One podcast and radio show at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, featuring Harvard's John Holdren and Gina McCarthy and hosted by...
View ArticleInternational Relations Scholars Comment on NATO at 70
Apr 4, 2019As NATO marks its 70th anniversary on Thursday, April 4, Belfer Center international relations experts comment on the value of—and threats to—the largest and strongest alliance of...
View ArticleStop-Motion Video Shows How to Take Apart a Nuclear Missile
Apr 8, 2019The Outrider Foundation has released a new stop-motion animation demonstrating the steps to take apart a nuclear-armed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. Sébastien Philippe, a...
View ArticleU.S.-Russia Elbe Group Issues Joint Statement
Apr 9, 2019The Elbe Group – consisting of retired senior military and intelligence officials from the U.S. and Russia – met in Reykjavik, Iceland in March 2019 to discuss a range of issues including...
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Call for Homeland Security Papers
Apr 10, 2019The Homeland Security Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is pleased to announce the creation of a paper series examining current and...
View ArticleJoseph Nye Honored with Jury Prize at the Sakıp Sabancı International...
Apr 17, 2019Professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. received the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards' Jury Prize at a ceremony held at Istanbul's Sabancı Center on April 10, 2019. The ceremony was hosted...
View ArticleMatthew Meselson Receives Future of Life Award for Work to Ban Bioweapons
Apr 9, 2019Matthew Meselson, a driving force behind the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), has received the $50,000 Future of Life Award for his successful efforts to ban biological weapons –...
View ArticleChina-U.S. Ties Should Focus on 'Shared Interest'
Apr 17, 2019The United States and China should manage competition and cooperation at the same time by identifying and working on areas of shared interest, the Harvard professor who has been hunting for...
View ArticleMatthew S. Meselson Honored with the 2019 Future of Life Award for BWC Role
Apr 24, 2019Dr. Matthew S. Meselson, Harvard University's Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and co-Director of the Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons,...
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Ash Carter and Kara Swisher Discuss Pressing Tech Challenges
Apr 24, 2019In a JFK Jr. Forum conversation with Belfer Center Director Ash Carter on tech issues, Recode Editor-at-Large Kara Swisher underscored the need to consider possible negative as well as...
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A Giant is Gone: Ash Carter Pays Tribute to Richard Lugar
Apr 29, 2019Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator from Indiana 1997-2013, died on April 28 at age 87.Belfer Center Director and former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter issued a statement praising "one of...
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