“I use ‘disruptive’ in both its good and bad connotations. Disruptive scientific and technological progress is not to me inherently good or inherently evil. But its arc is for us to shape. Technology’s progress is furthermore in my judgment unstoppable. But it is quite incorrect that it unfolds inexorably according to its own internal logic and the laws of nature.”
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Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today announced the launch of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, an effort to help reinvigorate a continental bond that has anchored global order, provided peace and stability, and fueled economic expansion for seven decades.
Diplomacy Experts
Robert M. Danin
Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Amanda Sloat
Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
Fidel Sendagorta
Rafael del Pino-MAEC Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
Energy & Environment
Energy & Environment ResearchRSS
CAMBRIDGE, MA –The Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government announced today that the Advancing Green Infrastructure Program - a public-private partnership in New Haven, Connecticut - is the winner of the 2018 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership. The partnership consists of the Urban Resources Initiative at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, EMERGE Connecticut, Inc., the City of New Haven Department of Engineering, the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority, and Common Ground High School.
Energy & Environment Experts
Henry Lee
Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Cristine Russell
Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Halla Hrund Logadóttir
Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program ; Co-Founder, Arctic Initiative ; Co-Director, Arctic Initiative
Science & Technology
Science & Technology ResearchRSS
The authors raise for debate and discussion what in their opinion is a growing mis-control and mis-protection of U.S. energy research. They outline the origin of this mis-control and mis-protection, and propose two guiding principles to mitigate them and instead nurture research: (1) focus on people, not projects; and (2) culturally insulate research from development, but not science from technology.
Science & Technology Experts
Kelly Sims Gallagher
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
William C. Clark
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Faculty Chair, Environment and Natural Resources Program; Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Area Chair, HKS International and Global Affairs
Joel Clement
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Security
Security ResearchRSS
Transatlantic relations have suffered since the advent of Donald Trump’s presidency. While collaboration and mutual understanding were taken for granted on a plethora of issues of joint interest during the administration of Barack Obama, Trump approaches Europe with undisguised skepticism. Although he has softened his rhetoric since his 2016 campaign, the US and the EU have not yet worked through their mutual antagonism. One significant issue on the agenda is NATO defense expenditure per member state. BESA joins the debate by posing the question: Is Trump right to push NATO partners to pay more for their participation in NATO? Steven E. Miller responds.
Security Experts
John S. Park
Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom; Director, Korea Working Group
Dara Kay Cohen
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty, International Security Program; Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Mariana Budjeryn
Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2017–2018; Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2016–2017
