Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center Welcomes Lori Garver and Beth Sanner...
Jan 13, 2022Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today announced the appointment of Lori Garver and Beth Sanner as non-resident Senior Fellows. Garver is a...
View ArticleHarvard Project Director Robert Stavins Featured at "Top Environmental...
Jan 14, 2022Professor Robert Stavins is profiled and interviewed by Ingmar Schumacher, Professor of Economics at IPAG Business School in Paris, France, at website, “Top Environmental Economists,”...
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Harvard Project Conducts Research Workshop on Subnational Climate-Change...
Jan 21, 2022The Harvard Project conducted a research and policy workshop in December 2021, “Subnational Climate Change Policy in India.” Co-sponsors were the Centre for Policy Research, in New Delhi,...
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John Holdren to Receive Public Welfare Medal from National Academy of Sciences
Jan 26, 2022The National Academy of Sciences is presenting the 2022 NAS Public Welfare Medal to John P. Holdren for his many years of work on behalf of science, particularly in his role as science...
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Ash Carter: Remembering Colin Powell
Oct 18, 2021Following the passing earlier today of former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, Belfer Center Director and former Secretary of Defense Ash...
View ArticleDr. Omar Razzaz, former Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,...
Jan 31, 2022The Middle East Initiative is pleased to announce that Dr. Omar Razzaz, former Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, will serve as a non-resident Emirates Leadership Initiative...
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Belfer Center Annual Report 2021
Feb 2, 2022An elementary law of physics states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.I like to think that a similar phenomenon exists in the Belfer Center’s line of work. In...
View Article'The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton' by Ernest May Fellow Andrew...
Feb 7, 2022The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton University Press), Ernest May Fellow Andrew Porwancher's latest book, has been selected by the Journal of the American Revolution as its...
View ArticleSyra Madad Named to National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
Feb 17, 2022Belfer Center Fellow Syra Madad, an internationally recognized leader and epidemiologist in public health and special pathogens preparedness and response, has been named to the National...
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Impacts of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Feb 28, 2022Belfer Center experts in security, intelligence, cyber, nuclear, and energy offer analysis and insight into Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
View ArticleJacqueline Hazelton Joins the Belfer Center as Executive Editor of...
Mar 1, 2022Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs welcomes Jacqueline (Jill) Hazelton as the new Executive Editor of the journal International Security. Hazelton,...
View ArticleNuclear Energy Agency Appoints Francesca Giovannini and Aditi Verma to...
Mar 3, 2022Two members of the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) team have been appointed to working groups at the Paris-based Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA). MTA Executive Director Dr. Francesca...
View ArticleUkraine Conflict: How Dangerous Is Russia's Nuclear Plant Attack?
Mar 4, 2022Russian forces have seized the largest nuclear plant in Europe, Ukrainian authorities say. It comes hours after a fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia plant following a Russian attack. The...
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Can a Shared Outrage over Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Unite a Divided America?
Mar 1, 2022“Everyone feels helpless in the face of such violence and such great premeditated, purposeful catastrophe,” says Mariana Budjeryn, a scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center....
View ArticleWar in Ukraine Enters a New Phase, Even More Unpredictable and Dangerous than...
Mar 1, 2022The initial stage of the war in Ukraine has confounded expectations. Russia’s military invasion failed in key objectives, upending predictions of a rout of Ukraine. Then, after years of...
View ArticleIs Putin Willing to Press the Nuclear Button? Keys to Understanding the...
Mar 3, 2022Francesca Giovannini, the executive director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science, believes that the nuclear option, while...
View ArticleWhy Russia Attacked Ukraine's Largest Nuclear Power Plant
Mar 4, 2022“It appears that [Russia] wanted to seize that facility, but they weren’t trying to destroy a nuclear power plant,” Matthew Bunn, a nuclear policy expert and a professor at the Harvard...
View ArticleShelling of Ukraine Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant "Extremely Reckless Behavior"...
Mar 4, 2022Mariana Budjeryn, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, shares details of Russia's shelling of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on CNN Newsroom.
View ArticleRussian Attack on Nuclear Plant a "Violation of International Law" – Mariana...
Mar 4, 2022Mariana Budjeryn, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, shares details of Russia's shelling of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on CNN International's Connect the...
View ArticlePutin Puts world on Alert with High-Stakes Nuclear Posturing
Mar 7, 2022Heather Williams, a nuclear expert at King’s College London and visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, said it was “totally ambiguous” but in keeping with a leader who has a history...
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