International Security & Defense

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

Newsmakers

| Summer 2012

"Belfer Center Newsmakers" highlights members of the Belfer Center community who have been featured recently in the news.

Colorful book fan of International Security journal covers

- 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.

Ashton B. Carter speaks during a presentation in 2009 of the MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle.

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

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

Q&A with Ashton B. Carter

Winter 2011-2012

Following the recent appointment of Ashton B. Carter as deputy secretary of defense, we asked Carter about the challenges and opportunities of his new position. Carter, an on-leave member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors, is a former director of the Belfer Center and was co-director of the Center’s Preventive Defense Project until leaving in 2009 to serve as under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.

Ashton B. Carter, a member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors is a former director of the Belfer Center and was co-director of the Center’s Preventive Defense Project until leaving in 2009 to serve as under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. Following his recent selection as deputy secretary of defense, we asked Carter about the challenges and opportunities of his new position.

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

Sudan Leaders, Experts Recommend Steps for Peace

Summer 2006

In March, Robert Rotberg hosted "Sudan at the Crossroads: Transforming Generations of Civil War into Peace and Development," a two-day conference to determine the best steps for confronting the challenges ahead for Sudan and Darfur. He convened a number of Sudanese leaders and experts in the fields of diplomacy, human rights advocacy, foreign aid, international business, and conflict prevention. Their task was to produce a "report card" on the issues in Sudan and come up with a workable plan for peace.

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

Munich Conference Focuses on Security, U.S.–European Partnership

Winter 2005-06

As a delegate to the 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy in February, Preventive Defense Project Co-director Ashton Carter met with defense and foreign ministers from around the globe to discuss the transatlantic relationship between Europe and the United States and how best to restore this key partnership.