International Security Program Special Event

Please Note New Date.

Speakers:  Joseph S. Nye, Professor Emeritus, HKS;  Nobukatsu Kanehara, Former Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister of Japan; Mayumi Fukushima, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Moderator: David Sanger, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center

The panelists will discuss how Putin's war in Ukraine may affect the security landscape of East Asia.

Everyone is welcome to join via Zoom! Please register in advance here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqduCppz8rH90D4Go7vF_gg_0xNpdNCRDO 

Speaker: Joana Cook,  Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation,  Department of War Studies, King's College London; Author, A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism Since 9/11

The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the United States approached terrorism and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments is rich and vast, there remains a significant void. The diverse actors contributing to counterterrorism increasingly consider, engage, and impact women as agents, partners, and targets of their work. Yet, flawed assumptions and stereotypes remain prevalent, and it remains undocumented and unclear how and why counterterrorism efforts have evolved as they did in relation to women.

Please join us! Coffee, tea, and light refreshments provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Speakers: Luis Simón, Professor in International Relations, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

Linde Desmaele, Ph.D. Candidate and Researcher, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

Why does the United States prioritize Europe or East Asia?  The 2017 U.S. National Security Strategy speaks of the erosion of America's competitive edge and warns about how Russian revisionism and China's rise threaten the balance of power in Europe and East Asia.  Drawing on insights from balance of power theory, the speakers provide a framework that explains why the United States prioritizes Europe or East Asia. Such a decision, they contend, hinges primarily on the degree to which a particular competitor is able to upset the regional balance across three key domains simultaneously: military, economic, and political-diplomatic. The speakers assess their framework against those competing explanations that may point to threat or bureaucratic politics as the main drivers of U.S. regional prioritization. To probe their hypothesis, they examine how the Europe vs. Asia dilemma played out during the Cold War and post–Cold War periods.

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Speaker: Assaf Moghadam, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel

Assaf Moghadam will discuss his new book, which explores the evolution of cooperation among an increasingly diverse spectrum of terrorist actors, including states, organizations, networks, and terrorist entrepreneurs, as well as the implications for counterterrorism theory and policy

Please join us! Coffee,tea, and light refreshments provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Please join us for a reception to celebrate the publication of Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change (Oxford University Press, 2018) by International Security Program Senior Fellow Chuck Freilich.

Refreshments provided. No need to RSVP.

Drawing on insights from diverse fields, Professor Ronald Krebs will show where dominant narratives that shape U.S. national security policy come from, how they become dominant, and when they collapse. Based on his recently published book, he will illustrate and evaluate these arguments using evidence drawn from U.S. debates over national security ranging from the 1930s to the 2000s.

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The speaker will discuss her new book, Israeli Peacemaking since 1967: Factors behind the Breakthroughs and Failures(Routledge, 2014).

Please join us! Coffee, tea, and dessert provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

This seminar will discuss the idea of the tributary system—most often associated with China's international relations from antiquity—to interpret how the United States relates to the rest of the world.

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Skeptics continue to question the Obama administration's signature foreign-policy initiative, the "rebalance" to Asia. But is that skepticism warranted?  From his perch on the Pacific rim, Dr. Bates Gill is tracking the debate about America's current and future presence in the region, while following Washington's policies of economic, diplomatic, and military engagement with partners in Asia.

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From a practitioner in multilateral disarmament negotiations comes an inside view on the complexities of present-day conference diplomacy — and on how individual diplomats can make a difference.

This event will be off-the-record.

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This event has been cancelled.

The transition from Cold War to the present international order, climate change, and energy security call for a new security concept and a new approach by Iceland to numerous long-running security problems and a new relationship with the United States and NATO allies in the region.

Please join Carr Center Fellow Greg Behrman for a discussion of his new book. Light refreshments provided. This event is co-sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

The Carr Center is hosting a reception in honor of Greg Behrman in Rubenstein 219 immediately following the seminar. Everyone is invited!