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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Quarterly Journal: International Security

Paul Doty's Legacy Lives on Through Influential Journal

| Spring 2012

As soon as Paul Doty launched what is now Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 1974, he began planning a scholarly journal on international security. He shrugged off colleagues’ concerns that there would be little market for such a journal.Thirty-six years after the first issue appeared in the summer of 1976, the Belfer Center’s quarterly International Security consistently ranks No. 1 or No. 2 out of over 70 international affairs journals surveyed by Thomson Reuters each year.

Honor and Opportunity: John P. Holdren, director of the Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, was installed in May as guest professor of Tsinghua University, a prestigious three-year non-resident appointment to the university known as “

Tsinghua University

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Belfer in Brief

Winter 2008-09

Brief notes on the recent comings and goings of a sampling of Belfer Center faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Allison’s Nonlethal Weapons Task Force Finds NLWs Could Have Saved Lives in Iraq

Spring 2004

The role of non-lethal weapons in the military should be substantially expanded, according to a recent report from an independent task force on "Non-Lethal Weapons and Capabilities." Convened by the Council on Foreign Relations and co-chaired by Graham Allison and Marine Corps General Paul X. Kelly (ret.), the task force presented its report in March. Among its findings: nonlethal weapon use by US forces in Iraq could have saved lives and reduced damage from sabotage and looting.