Events

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch with Finn Myrstad, Director of Digital Policy for the Norwegian Consumer Council, on "Consumer Threats in the Internet of Things. 

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Former U.S. Permanent Representatives to NATO Douglas Lute and Nicholas Burns highlight ten major challenges to NATO in a new report, NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis, and offer recommendations to bolster this critically important alliance.

A seminar with Rebecca Davis Gibbons, postdoctoral research fellow with the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom.

The Intelligence Project will host a lunch with Norman Roule from 12:00-1:30pm in One Brattle 350.

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP below.

The Intelligence Project will host a lunch with Carol Dumaine from 12:00-1:15pm in the Belfer Center Library.

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP below.

Speaker: Aroop Mukharji, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program

President William McKinley's foreign policy ranks among the most consequential of all U.S. presidents. At the start of his first term, the United States was primarily hemispheric in its foreign policy orientation. By the start of his second term, the United States had brought down a European colonial power, had begun governing seven new overseas territories, and had fought two additional wars in Asia.

This presentation focuses specifically on the Spanish-American War and why McKinley decided to intervene. Three myths about his motivations continue to persist: (1) that the United States waged an economically imperialist war to open up trade opportunities, (2) that the rhetoric of manliness pressured McKinley into taking a more aggressive stance, and (3) that the yellow press whipped up a public frenzy that led to the declaration of war. These influences are greatly overstated. Instead, this presentation will argue that the Spanish-American War was partly a humanitarian war, but also a "precautionary war" (author's term) that was based on a general fear of disorder, uncertainty, and instability and waged to ensure conditions that better facilitated regional stability and peace.

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

A seminar with Lama Mourad, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch seminar with Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, on Resisting Law Enforcement’s Siren Song: A Call to Improve Trust and Security. 

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. 

The Belfer Center and the Future Society PIC will host Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Special Projects at Facebook in the Belfer Center Library (L369).

The Belfer Center will host Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Special Projects at Facebook in the Belfer Center Library (L369).