Diplomacy and International Politics

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Fisher Family Fellow and Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erakat on the future of Israeli-Palestinian talks given the recent recognitions of Israel by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. This seminar will be moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns and is open to Harvard-ID holders or by invitation only.

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with our two Fisher Family Fellows from 2019-2020: Tzipi Livni, former Foreign Minister of Israel and former Chief Negotiator for Israel, and Dr. Saeb Erakat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator and Head of the Negotiations Affairs Department. The two former chief negotiators from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides will discuss their past experience together at the negotiation table and will also address challenges and opportunities for a future peace settlement. This seminar will moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns. It is open to Harvard faculty, fellows, students, and staff only and strictly off the record. 

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a discussion about the role that foreign policy will play in the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November 2020 with Senior Fellow, Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. This seminar will be moderated by Professor Nicholas Burns.

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Please join the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, in an online conversation at Harvard University about his first 100 days in office and the current political crisis in Kosovo. This event will be moderated by Nicholas Burns, Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. It is co-sponsored by the Harvard College Albanian Students Association, the Future of Diplomacy Project, and the Harvard Political Union.

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a discussion on how the coronavirus crisis might change the trajectory of global economic, governance and military affairs with Senior Fellow, David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post.  This seminar will be moderated by Professor Nicholas Burns.

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The United States and Europe have maintained an adversarial relationship with Russia since President Putin illegally annexed Crimea and invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014. The U.S.-Russia relationship was further damaged by Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. How can the U.S. work with European partners to develop a new approach toward Russia that pushes back against Putin’s aggression while making progress on vital interests such as arms control and non-proliferation?

 Please join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a discussion with Michael Carpenter, Managing Director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Faculty Chair Nicholas Burns and Research Director Torrey Taussig will moderate the discussion. 

 Dr. Carpenter previously served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, the Balkans, and Conventional Arms Control.  He also served in the White House as a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Joe Biden as well as on the National Security Council as Director for Russia.

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Please join Sergey Lagodinsky, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, and André Sapir, Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, for a discussion about how the European Central Bank, European Council, European Commission, and European Parliament are responding to the existential challenges facing the European Union during the coronavirus pandemic. Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University, will chair the discussion.

This seminar is part of a series of events which explores COVID-19 from a transatlantic perspective. It is co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard.

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As the novel coronavirus spreads around the world, people are responding to the onslaught in similar ways—social distancing, working from home, panic buying at grocery stores. But people in different countries are also weathering this crisis in different ways; for example, they are finding different products to hoard, different ways to pass the time, different people to blame, and even different things to worry about. Project on Europe Fellow Amanda Sloat will discuss the results of her mid-March research into these trends, as well as the numerous policy questions that have arisen in subsequent weeks. Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook will moderate the discussion. 

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The Future of Diplomacy Project is proud to showcase the work of selected students, whose PAEs/SYPAs (capstone projects) formulated an innovative approach to a challenging problem in international affairs, diplomacy, development or defense. Selected students will have 15 minutes to present their work over Zoom to the wider HKS community, including fellows, faculty, senior administrators and fellow students, including Mid-Careers and MPA2s. RSVP is required.

Daniela Schwarzer, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), will present and analyze the French and German responses to the COVID-19 crisis, with an eye on the Franco-German relationship and the European Union. Karl Kaiser, Fellow with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship will chair this discussion.

This seminar is part of a series of events which explores COVID-19 from a transatlantic perspective. It is co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. 

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