Events

Please join the Belfer Center's Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy (DETS) Program for "The Australian Signals Directorate from WW2 to AI: Leadership, Threats and the Future of Intelligence" with Rachel Noble, Director General of the Australian Signals Directorate. 

The session will be held on Monday, January 22nd at 12:00PM in the Belfer Library for Harvard ID holders. This event is off-the-record and lunch will be served. Please reach out to Olivia Leiwant (oleiwant@hks.harvard.edu) with any questions.

Please join the Belfer Center’s Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy Program (DETS) for a seminar on “Near Peer Competition: Reimagining Defense for the Emerging World Order’” on Tuesday, November 14th at 3:00 PM in the Ellwood Democracy Lab (Rubenstein 414-AB).  Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP here​.

Please join the Belfer Center’s Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy Program (DETS) for a seminar on “Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific, a view from ‘Down Under’” on Tuesday, October 7th at 3:00 PM in the Ellwood Democracy Lab (Rubenstein 414-AB). 

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP here.

Rabia Akhtar presented at the weekly MTA Seminar. 

Her talk was titled: "Strategic Stability, Crisis Communication, and Shared Nuclear Responsibilities in South Asia"

Speaker: Ambassador Zamir Akram, Author, The Security Imperative: Pakistan's Nuclear Deterrence & Diplomacy

Ambassador Akram will discuss his new book, which is an in-depth study of the evolution of Pakistan's nuclear program until it became a reality despite all the international pressures against it and the challenges along the way.

Open to Harvard ID Holders Only: Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis. Coffee, Tea, & Light Refreshments Provided.

Speaker: Anatol Klass, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program

Throughout the period when the People's Republic of China (PRC) was formally excluded from the United Nations (1949-1971), the India was a constant advocate for unrecognized Chinese government at the international organization, even as relations between the two countries deteriorated in the run-up to and aftermath of the 1962 border war. Based on sources from the PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, this presentation explores the nature of PRC-India cooperation over United Nations affairs during the Cold War including the tensions caused by the two nations' competing conceptions of how the decolonizing world should fit into the international system and who should be at the helm. Despite these disagreements, the Cold War UN provided a setting where geopolitical tensions and divergent post-colonial visions could be sublimated into meaningful international cooperation.

Open to Harvard ID Holders Only: Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis. Coffee & Tea Provided.

Speaker: Apekshya Prasai, Gender & Security Predoctoral Fellow, International Security Program

When organizing insurgency, all rebels face gendered choices. Insurgents operate in, recruit from, and depend on communities where half the population is female.  This seminar seeks to describe and explain the differentially gendered approaches insurgents adopt to organizing violence.

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Please register in advance for this seminar:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqcemrpjsvG9GQejHVwaRw0GWln_pX8n0g

Speaker: Joshua W. Busby, Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

Chair:  Dustin Tingley, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Climate Change. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Joshua Busby will talk about his new book, States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge: 2022), and explore why climate change leads to negative security outcomes in some places and not others.

SPONSORED BY THE WEATHERHEAD RESEARCH CLUSTER ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Cosponsored by the International Security Program and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability

Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the Defense Project for a conversation with Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The Speaker will deliver remarks on the future of the U.S.-Philippines alliance, the foreign and defense policy of the Philippines under President Marcos, and evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. His remarks will be followed by a conversation moderated by Eric Rosenbach (Co-Director of the Belfer Center).

Advance registration is required.

In 2021, the UK put forth its ‘Indo-Pacific Tilt,’ underlining the strategic importance that it places on the region. Recent political administrations in Britain have increasingly underscored the need to drive prosperity and growth with countries and institutions like ASEAN, Australia, India, and New Zealand, with trade, technology, and security to likely feature as cornerstones. What does the UK’s geopolitical and economic strategy in the Asia-Pacific look like today? How can the ‘Indo-Pacific Tilt’ continue to move forward beyond its written significance? 

 Please join the Southeast Asia Caucus, British & Irish Caucus, and Future of Diplomacy Project for a special conversation with Natalie Black (HKS MPP ’11), His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Asia-Pacific. This event will be moderated by Abhinav Seetharaman (MPP ’23).

 Advance registration is required, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students, staff, faculty, fellows). This event will be off the record.