Events

The Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a discussion on the future of arms control, as part of a new HKS series on The Future World Order.  The participants will be Emma Belcher (Ploughshares Fund), Matthew Bunn (Belfer Center/Managing the Atom) and Steven E. Miller (Belfer Center/International Security Program).  Professor Stephen Walt (Belfer Center/ISP) will moderate.

The session is open to the public.  Please RSVP below for access to the Zoom link.

A Climate Week Event co-organized by the Woodwell Climate Research Center and the Arctic Initiative

This session focuses on a warming-driven phenomenon—the rapid thawing of Arctic permafrost—that is contributing simultaneously to the most vexing of Arctic warming’s impacts both in the region and around the world. This session will target experts and non-experts who are interested in understanding the science and policy issues at the heart of this widely underestimated facet of the global climate-change challenge.

Register here.

Are you interested in the Arctic?
Do you have compelling thoughts and ideas to share?
If so, the Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, invites you to take part in our new student-led podcast series.

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of Yale University's Program on Climate Change Communication. Dr. Leiserowitz will speak on "Climate Change and the American Mind." 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: A link to register for the webinar will be posted here as soon as it becomes available. Registration will remain open until the event begins.

Join the Arctic Initiative for a discussion with the former President of Iceland, H.E. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the current Chair and Co-founder of the largest gathering on Arctic affairs, the Arctic Circle Assembly, and a leader in the Arctic dialogue. This session is a part of the "Glacier Talks" with leaders on Arctic issues. Limited seats available - you will be notified if you have been selected. 

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.

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! Please register in advance: Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtduCrqTkvGNfXBx_5jgfRvTV0s5aAFKgP

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.

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.

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.