235 Past Events

A view of ground zero at the French nuclear tests' site in In-Ekker near Ain Maguel, 170 km from the southern Algerian town of Tamanrasset, Feb. 16, 2007.

Public Domain/VOA

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Nuclear Politics in the Age of Decolonization: France's Sahara Tests and the Advent of the Global Nuclear Order

Thu., Nov. 16, 2023 | 12:15pm - 1:45pm

One Brattle Square - Room 350

Speaker:  Leyla Tiglay, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program

Rumors of an impending atomic experiment in Africa circulated in newspapers as early as 1956, four years before France conducted its first atomic test at the Reggane Testing Center in the Sahara in 1960. The late 1950s saw France's technological preparations, strained transatlantic relations due to complex nuclear alignments in Europe, and an unprecedented wave of anti-nuclear mobilization in decolonizing Africa. Using the French tests as a case study, this research aims to refine scholars and policymakers' understanding of how decolonization intrinsically influenced the formation of the current global nuclear landscape during this pivotal era in nuclear politics. 

Open to Harvard ID Holders Only: Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis. Coffee &Tea Provided.

Seminar - Open to the Public

States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security

Wed., Apr. 26, 2023 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm

S050 CGIS South Building

Speaker: Joshua W. Busby, Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

Chair:  Dustin Tingley, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Climate Change. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Joshua Busby will talk about his new book, States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge: 2022), and explore why climate change leads to negative security outcomes in some places and not others.

SPONSORED BY THE WEATHERHEAD RESEARCH CLUSTER ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Cosponsored by the International Security Program and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability

Ambassador Murat Mercan

TWITTER/Turkish MFA

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Trends and Developments in Turkish Foreign Policy: A Conversation with H.E. Hasan Murat Mercan, Ambassador of Türkiye to the U.S., and Sir Peter Westmacott, former Ambassador of the UK to Türkiye

Tue., Feb. 28, 2023 | 9:00am - 10:15am

Littauer Building - Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor

Please join the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project and Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a seminar on Türkiye’s current global role with H.E. Hasan Murat Mercan, Ambassador of Türkiye to the U.S., and Sir Peter Westmacott, former Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Türkiye, the U.S., and France. Ambassadors Mercan and Westmacott will discuss a range of regional issues, including the war in Ukraine and NATO as well as Turkish-American relations. This conversation will be moderated by Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Gulf and a World in Transition: A Conversation with Bahraini Ambassador to the US Shaikh Abdulla Rashed Al Khalifa

Mon., Sep. 19, 2022 | 9:00am - 10:00am

Littauer Building - Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor

On Monday, September 19, the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project will host a conversation with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Shaikh Abdulla Rashed Al Khalifa, on Monday, September 19. His Excellency will address current diplomatic priorities for the Kingdom of Bahrain and will provide a perspective on the most significant security challenges faced by Bahrain, in the context of the continuing COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

The conversation will be moderated by Director of the Intelligence Project, Paul Kolbe.

This event will be be on the record. It is for Harvard students, fellows and faculty and is not open to the public. Registration is capped at 50.

**Registration Closed**

Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, 1 March 2014.

Wikimedia CC/Ludvig14

Seminar - Open to the Public

Russia in a Contested International Order: The Foundations and Frameworks of Moscow's International Thought

Thu., Apr. 28, 2022 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Online

Speaker: Nicole Grajewski, Research Fellow, International Security Program

Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine and embattlement with the West has signified the fundamental divergences in Moscow's approaches to international order. Rather than an aberration, present-day Russian foreign policy has been consistent with the persistent factors in Moscow's international thought. This presentation offers a framework for interpreting Russian foreign policy thinking and Moscow's approaches to the maintenance and transformation of international order.

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Please register in advance for this seminar:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtdeqoqzsoG9FhW7bqUJ8vFPuWvEGbHjKB

Seminar - Open to the Public

Egypt: Lumbering State, Restless Society

Thu., Mar. 31, 2022 | 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Online

Amr Adly and Nathan Brown will present their book (co-authored with Shimaa Hatab) on Egyptian politics, society, and economy.  The book draws on the authors' own research but situates it within multidisciplinary scholarship on Egypt in both English and Arabic and works to integrate the Egyptian experience into broader comparative discussions about state formation, regime type, social movements, and political economy in the Global South.

Seminar - Open to the Public

Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age

Wed., Mar. 2, 2022 | 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Online

Nadya Hajj, Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Co-Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College, will discuss her latest book, Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age

Map of Northern Nigeria: Native Authority Areas, 1962

BMArchives

Seminar - Open to the Public

Rethinking Britain's "Liberal Empire" and its Lessons

Thu., Feb. 10, 2022 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Online

Speaker: Barnaby Crowcroft, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program

The historical debate over the British empire tends to be preoccupied with its role — whether for good or for ill — in spreading some form of "liberal modernity" throughout its territories. However, this has tended to neglect the much wider British practice of empire through alliance, treaty, and protection-style arrangements, which had little if any connection with liberal reform. This presentation will introduce this "other" British empire, discuss some of its primary locations, institutions, and motivating ideas and reflect upon its possible lessons for international and foreign policy.

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Please register in advance for this seminar: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscOGgpj8rHNJuCVOSMvoqXABgfshFxBbn

Seminar - Open to the Public

Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

Thu., Dec. 16, 2021 | 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Online

Stephen Biddle will discuss his new book, Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias, in which he argues that some nonstate armies fight more “conventionally” than state armies and that the internal politics of nonstate actors determine their military tactics and strategies.