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2008

March 2008

Broadmoor Project Announces 2008 Summer Internships

Announcement

The HKS-Broadmoor Project for Community Engagement in New Orleans is pleased to announce 3 paid summer internships in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans.

2007

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September 7, 2007

Iraq Progress Report: Reading Between the Lines

Media Feature

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Brigadier General (ret.) Kevin Ryan, Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Paul Kane, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005-2008, Eric Rosenbach, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program

With Gen. David H. Petraeus scheduled to appear before Congress next week, Belfer Center experts and researchers offer their insights and analysis — as well as items that Congress should not overlook.

Spring 2007

"From Prediction to Learning: Opening Experts' Minds to Unfolding History"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 31

By Richard Herrmann and Jong Kun Choi

No expert in the academic or intelligence community can predict the future, but they should at least be able to accurately analyze and quickly update their beliefs to craft effective policy. Too often, experts not only forget what they used to believe, but also see little connection between explaining the past and predicting the future. A two-year case study of fifteen Korean experts examines their initial predictions about security on the Korean Peninsula and demonstrates how a Bayesian approach helped them first to empirically analyze their theories, and then to successfully update them based on events that actually transpired.

2006

June 18, 2006

Hurricanes are an American Problem

Op-Ed, Miami Herald

By Bob Graham, Former Senior Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2005-2006

The 2006 hurricane season began on June 1. Floridians approached this date with dread. During the last two seasons we have suffered some of the most damaging hurricanes in modern history. In the calm months since then, yet another storm has arisen -- the increasing cost and shrinking availability of insurance for wind driven damage for homes and businesses.

2005

September 12, 2005

Appointments That Disappoint

Op-Ed, The Los Angeles Times

By Juliette Kayyem, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

At the very least, Congress should reconsider its position of "once approved, always approved."

2004

September 12, 2004

Prize Terror Suspects Are Being Set Free

Op-Ed, Newsday

By Juliette Kayyem, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The collapse earlier this month of the government's case against an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Detroit is just another example of the Justice Department's failed "arrest by headlines" philosophy in the war on terror.

July 4, 2004

Africa: Side by Side...But in Starkly Different Worlds

Op-Ed, LA Times

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Comparing Leadership in Africa

July/August 2004

Strengthening African Leadership

Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 4, volume 83

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Poor leadership has been the depressing norm in Africa for decades. But as a bold new initiative by a group of past and present African leaders takes off, good governance may finally come to the continent.

2000

September 2000

Ensuring Quality People in Defense

Book Chapter

By David S.C. Chu, Dr. John P. White, Robert and Renee Belfer Lecturer, Faculty Co-Chair of the Dubai Initiative; Faculty Chair of the Middle East Initiative, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, John Brown and Nurith Berstein

Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future

September 2000

Managing the Pentagon's International Relations

Book Chapter

By Dr. Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, Christiana Briggs and Anja Miller

Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future

International Security

The Fall 2008 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available. It includes articles by Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Calvert Jones, Sumit Ganguly, S. Paul Kapur, and more.

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Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters

It's not just Bush and Cheney that are to blame. The system is broken. That's the message in this provocative sequel to Against All Enemies. When Richard Clarke apologized for 9-11, he never thought that there would be so many more government failures in so short a time, but climate change, Katrina, the struggle with al Qaeda, the insecurity in cyberspace, and the failure of homeland security all bespeak a larger problem, a systemic failure. Clarke documents the failures and suggests solutions for making government work better in its most important job, protecting us.

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Ibrahim Index of African Governance

Strengthening African governance is the goal of a new ranking system that has been developed. The Index draws heavily on pioneering work by Robert I. Rotberg, Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict.

International Security Program

The International Security Program (ISP) addresses the most pressing threats to U.S. national interests and international security.

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Governance and Information Technology

Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government

Developments in information and communication technology and networked computing over the past two decades have given rise to the notion of electronic government, most commonly used to refer to the delivery of public services over the Internet. This volume argues for a shift from the narrow focus of "electronic government" on technology and transactions to the broader perspective of information government—the information flows within the public sector, between the public sector and citizens, and among citizens....

Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government is the result of a collaboration between the authors, the Dubai Initiative, and the Dubai School of Government (DSG). The original papers were presented at a DSG conference held in Dubai in May 2005.

Balancing Power

War, Peace and Hegemony in a Globalized World:The Changing Balance of Power in the Twenty-First Century

This book focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the growing aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order.

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