Events

The 2020 U.S. Presidential election will have outsized impact on a host of national security issues. Our panel of experts, spanning the political spectrum, will assess how the election outcome will affect North Korea policy in the next four years. In our discussion, we will draw on the panel’s experience serving in Republican and Democratic administrations and on Capitol Hill as well as their cutting-edge policy research on North Korea.

The Korea Project and the ROK Consulate General in Boston are co-sponsoring this event.

Ms Susan Davenport from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and Mr. Isaac Lowe from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), will provide a joint overview of space systems and operations, followed by Q&A. Susan has spent 30 years working in the IC and DoD in Advanced Systems research, Image & Signal Processing, Intelligence and Acquisition.  Isaac currently works for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and has spent 25 years working in space intelligence and operations within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Together they'll be discussing:

1. What is Space Reconnaissance and why do we need it?

2. Who are the players in the Nations' Space arena and how do they work together?

3. How has the space domain changed in the last couple of decades?

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Ted Nordhaus, Founder and Executive Director of the Breakthrough Institute. Mr. Nordhaus will speak on "In Defense of Muddling: Why Climate Advocates Should Take Their Victories Where They Can Find Them." The seminar will be hosted by HKS Professor Joe Aldy.

Attendance: This event is open to the public and hosted on Zoom. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch via the EPSS homepage.

Registration: Please RSVP at the link below. Registration will remain open until the event begins.

The world's biggest underground iron ore mine is about to undermine the Swedish city of Kiruna. The answer? Move the city.

Join the Arctic Initiative for a conversation with students from Luleå University and experts from across the globe for a case discussion about sustainable development, consensus building, and how one Arctic city is responding to rapid change.

Apply to be part of this unique case discussion opportunity by Monday, September 28, 2020, so you can be matched with your international team.

Given recent events, how can U.S. policymakers understand and manage the drawbacks and vulnerabilities that arise with global economic networks that entangle the U.S. and China? What limits do global supply chains, information networks, and global financial systems pose to such efforts? How should policymakers modernize Cold War-era international rules of the road to bridge the economic and security policy divide? Join the Belfer Center and Center for Business and Government’s Economic Diplomacy Initiative for a conversation with Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman on the prospects for decoupling between the American and Chinese economies. The discussion will be jointly moderated by Aditi Kumar, Executive Director of the Belfer Center, and Ali Wyne, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

MEI Faculty Director Tarek Masoud and MEI Visiting Fellow Karim Haggag in conversation with Dr. Nabil Fahmy, former Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo. This event is part of the Fall 2020 MEI Series, USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Ambassador Susan Rice, former National Security Adviser and Belfer Center Senior Fellow, about her recent New York Times best-selling memoir, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For and U.S. foreign policy. This seminar will be moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns and is open to Harvard affiliates or by invitation only.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting and use your @harvard.edu email address:

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrcumsrj0tGte0slmaxRd3BXOZWG8LV4OO 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Speaker: Samuel Ramani, D.Phil. Candidate in International Relations, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford

This seminar will examine this contradiction in the Russia-China relationship and assess whether lessons from the Cold War–era Sino-Soviet Split can help predict the partnership's future direction. It will also examine how these contradictory trends in Russia-China relations could impact U.S. foreign policy and assess whether Russia and China chiefly pose a combined threat or two disparate challenges to U.S. hegemony in the post-pandemic era.

Everyone is welcome to join us via Zoom! Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtduCrqTkvGNfXBx_5jgfRvTV0s5aAFKgP

In the midst of the most hotly contested election in generations – when citizens and scholars alike struggle to understand the stresses straining our political system – join the Belfer Center's Applied History Project for our Fall 2020 Applied History Series.  By consulting distinguished public servants and historians, this speaker series illuminates today's world by looking to lessons from the past.

This event has been postponed to a later date TBD.

The Intelligence Project will host a webinar with the Honorable Susan M. Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, on Wednesday September 30th from 11:00am-12:15pm. 

This session will be off-the-record and open to the public.  Advanced registration required. Please RSVP below for access to the Zoom link.