Events

Join the Future of Diplomacy Executive Director Nicholas Burns and Secretary Ash Carter in a conversation with Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and ranking member of the Armed Services Committee.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Iran Project will host a Student and Fellow Session with Andrew Peek, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. The discussion will take place in the One Brattle, Room 350.

A seminar with Neil Ketchley, Lecturer in Middle East Politics, King’s College London and Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on his recent book, Egypt in a Time of Revolution, from Cambridge University Press.

Moderated by Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, HKS.

Join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a launch event moderated by Manuel Muñiz, with panelists including Klaus Scharioth, Radek Sikorski, Muriel Rouyer, and Daniel Ziblatt.

Join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a launch event moderated by Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Executive Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, with panelists including Douglas Alexander, Douglas Lute, Joseph Nye, and Amanda Sloat.

A Conversation with Pedro Morenés, Julianne Smith, David O’Sullivan, and Peter Wittig. Moderated by Nicholas Burns. Opening remarks by Douglas Elmendorf.

Speaker: Michael Ford, French Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment.

The need to mitigate emissions of global warming gases in the energy sector is critical. It has been widely argued that the most plausible and cost effective strategy to achieve deep decarbonization is by deploying a portfolio of “everything we’ve got.” Most integrated assessment models ascribe a future role in the low carbon energy mix to nuclear power.  But burdened with extensive regulation, a dated development model, and longstanding negative externalities such as waste and perceived accident risk, the future role of nuclear in decarbonization is uncertain. In this seminar, we will briefly examine the history of the U.S. Department of Energy in advanced nuclear research and development and propose an alternative path that is better suited to the market and technical realities of advanced nuclear concepts.  We will also examine broader issues of institutional capacity that may impact the wider deployment of nuclear power to meet carbon mitigation goals.

The Intelligence Project will host a lunch with Mark Kelton, Former Director of Counterintelligence for the CIA, on Wednesday, April 25th from 12:00-1:00pm in One Brattle 350. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen will moderate.

Lunch from Flour Bakery will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP below and bring your Harvard ID for check-in at the door. 

Nadiya Kostyuk (Cyber Security Project Fellow) will present her recent paper, "Invisible Digital Front: Can Cyber Attacks Shape Battlefield Events."

A seminar with Frederic Wehrey, Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on his new book The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Followed by a book signing at Harvard COOP Bookstore at 1400 Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard Square.