The existing global political-economic order has been ruptured by the rise of China, a broad backlash against globalization, uncertainties about the U.S. commitment to a rules-based system, and most recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. What form(s) might a future world order take, and what principles should guide efforts to construct it? The Future World Order event series will address these questions by examining individual topics ranging from traditional security issues such as arms control to newer, relevant issues such as digital trade. Professors Dani Rodrik and  Stephen M. Walt will moderate individual sessions.

Former International Security Program Postdoctoral Fellow Andrea Gilli and his co-author Mauro Gilli have won the America in the World Consortium (AWC) Best Research Article on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy for "Why China Has Not Caught Up Yet: Military-Technological Superiority and the Limits of Imitation, Reverse Engineering, and Cyber Espionage," which appeared in International Security (Winter 2018/19).

In this issue, we highlight three new books by Belfer Center affiliates:

Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi, by Amy Austin Holmes

The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, with contributions from Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Graham Allison, Kurt Campbell, and David Sanger

Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump, by Joseph S. Nye

Dr. Aaron Rapport, a 2009–2010 International Security Program (ISP) research fellow, died peacefully in hospice on June 27, 2019 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He had battled cancer for four years.

Dr. Matthew S. Meselson, Harvard University's Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and co-Director of the Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons, received the $50,000 Future of Life Award at a ceremony at the University of Boulder's Conference on World Affairs on April 9, 2019.  The award honors Meselson's leading role in the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), an international treaty that not only affirmed the existing ban on the use of biological weapons, but also banned the production, stockpiling, and offensive research into biological weapons. The BWC also provides for a verification system.