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"Why Are Some Democracies So Violent - and How Can They Recover?" Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Rachel Kleinfeld

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The most violent countries in the world are not at war - they are poorly functioning democracies like Brazil, where more people have died over the last three years than in Syria. Dr. Kleinfeld's new book overturns common wisdom about weak states to explain what is going wrong, and mines case studies to determine how places trapped in A Savage Order ​(Knopf, 2018) can find security. The Belfer Center will host a lunch with the Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Belfer Center Library (L369).

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

About

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she advises governments, multilateral organizations, and philanthropists on improving security, democracy, and governance. She served for a decade as the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, a movement of military, policy, and political leaders to promote U.S. foreign policies that advance security, dignity, and human flourishing at home and abroad, for which Time Magazine named her one of the top U.S. political leaders under 40.  From 2011-2014 she was chosen by Hillary Clinton to serve on the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which advised the Secretary of State quarterly.  Rachel is the author of multiple books and articles, including Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform, which was named one of the best foreign policy books of 2012 by Foreign Affairs magazine. She received her M. Phil and D. Phil from Oxford, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and her B.A. from Yale University. A Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum,  Rachel grew up in a log house on a dirt road in her beloved Fairbanks, Alaska and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.