Diplomacy and International Politics

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a discussion on efforts to manage COVID-19 and limit widespread transmission across the African continent with Senior Fellow, Douglas Alexander, former UK Secretary of State for International Development and Chair of the Board of Trustees of UNICEF UK. This seminar will be moderated by Professors Nicholas Burns and Zoe Marks.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting:

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Please join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a discussion on the European Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across Europe. Sergio Fabbrini, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, and Alvaro Renedo, Rafael del Pino-Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellow, will report from their vantage points on the ground in Italy and Spain respectively. Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns will moderate 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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The Treaty of Lisbon established the most developed array of EU foreign policy instruments in the history of European integration, which include a permanent President of the European Council, a revamped High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and a European External Action Service. Ten years after the entry into force of the treaty, an assessment of the effectiveness of such instruments for transatlantic dialogue is timely and necessary. What impact have EU foreign policy instruments had on transatlantic dialogue? How have these instruments been ineffective? What could be done to make them more effective?

The first seminar (March 26th) presented the results of quantitative analysis, based on recent data findings of US-EU political dialogue.

The second seminar (April 16th) will focus on qualitative analysis of the transatlantic relationship, in light of interviews conducted with government officials from the past four US administrations

Project on Europe Fellow Alvaro Renedo will address these issues, in light of his research findings and his experience as former Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain.

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a discussion on disinformation during the Coronavirus pandemic with our Fellow, Edward Wong, Fellow at the Wilson Center and New York Times correspondent, moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns.

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Middle East Initiative for a discussion on the Trump administration's Middle East peace plan entitled "Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People" with Fisher Family Fellow Dr. Saeb Erakat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator and Head of the Negotiations Affairs Department. This seminar will be moderated by Professors Nicholas Burns and Tarek Masoud.

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President Eisenhower hoped to see Europe as a “third great power block.”  New European defense initiatives represent a generational ambition for bold action. Can Europe effectively improve its defense investments and capabilities? And should the United States support a strong European security and defense policy?  Join the Project on Europe to discuss EU defense efforts and US policies with Fellow, Dr. Seth Johnston, and Research Director, Dr. Torrey Taussig, as outlined in Dr Johnston's recent Belfer Center policy brief, “A Europe that Protects? : U.S. Opportunities in European Defense.”

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. You can join the video conference here: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/318354958 OR call in by dialing +1 312 626 6799. Meeting ID 318 354 958. 

The Treaty of Lisbon established the most developed array of EU foreign policy instruments in the history of European integration, which include a permanent President of the European Council, a revamped High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and a European External Action Service. Ten years after the entry into force of the treaty, an assessment of the effectiveness of such instruments for transatlantic dialogue is timely and necessary. What impact have EU foreign policy instruments had on transatlantic dialogue? How have these instruments been ineffective? What could be done to make them more effective?

Project on Europe Fellow Alvaro Renedo will address these issues, in light of his research findings and his experience as former Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. You can join the video conference here: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/854417819 OR call in by dialing +1 929 436 2866. Meeting ID: 854 417 819.

Over the course of two sessions, this seminar will examine the Trump Administration’s Middle East peace plan and policies. It will consider the plan in historical context, looking at the evolution of US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It will analyze the plan in depth in order to understand what it offers the parties, how it seeks to resolve the conflict, how it differs from previous peace-making efforts, and in what ways is it an outgrowth of earlier efforts. The seminar will also briefly examine the historical evolution of the conflict on the ground and the trajectory of the rival Israeli and Palestinian national movements, setting the context for today’s present political, economic, and social realities for both peoples. Participants are strongly encouraged to join the two complementary sessions.

Now that the European Commission has launched the Conference on the Future of Europe, please join Professors Nicholas Burns and Sergio Fabbrini, the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, for a discussion on the challenges and opportunities for the reform of the European Union and the future of European integration. 

Breakfast will be served.

In recent years the crisis of the transatlantic relationship and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has become a common theme in media, and various scholars have frequently questioned the futures of both entities. Not only are the new sovereigntist and populist trends within the NATO members calling the relevance of the transatlantic relationship into question, but some have found a reason to identify a crisis in the transatlantic relationship from the rise of global actors and the emergence of China as a great power in particular. China’s economic recovery after its “century of humiliation” is reshaping the international geopolitics and shifting the economic epicenter of the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; and Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School