Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the Defense Project for a conversation with Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The Speaker will deliver remarks on the future of the U.S.-Philippines alliance, the foreign and defense policy of the Philippines under President Marcos, and evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. His remarks will be followed by a conversation moderated by Eric Rosenbach (Co-Director of the Belfer Center).

Advance registration is required.

​​Please join the Belfer Center’s Defense Project and the Asia-Pacific Initiative for “AUKUS, the Quad, and Australia's Strategic Vision for the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from Australia's Defense Experts”, a panel featuring the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

Attendance is limited to Harvard ID holders only. Please RSVP here. 

Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a special conversation with Matan Chorev, Principal Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department on "Navigating the Post Post-Cold War Era." This event will be moderated by Chris Li (Director of Research, Asia-Pacific Initiative) and Mayu Arimoto (MPP'23 and Belfer Young Leader Student Fellow).

Advance registration is required, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students, staff, faculty, fellows). This event will be off the record.

Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary will deliver remarks on the Biden Administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy, followed by a conversation moderated by Chris Li (Director of the Asia-Pacific Initiative) and Erika Manouselis (Manager of the Future of Diplomacy Project).

Advance registration is required, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students, staff, faculty, fellows).

The Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project will host a student roundtable with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, focused on careers in diplomacy and foreign affairs. The Assistant Secretary will reflect on his 28 years of public service at the State Department, the White House, and U.S. embassies around the world, and answer student questions. Chris Li, Director of the Asia-Pacific Initiative, will moderate the session.

Advance registration is required, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students, staff, faculty, fellows). This event will be off-the-record.

The Belfer Center's Asia-Pacific Initiative and Defense Project will host a Director's Seminar with John C. Demers, former Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice. The conversation will be moderated by Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director of the Belfer Center, and Chris Li, Director of Research for the Asia-Pacific Initiative.

Advance registration is required, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students, staff, faculty, fellows).

You are permitted to attend only if you receive an email confirmation. 

Come meet the 2022-2023 National Security Fellows and learn about their plans for the academic year, including the revamping of the For the Common Defense sessions and the Defense Project Seminar Series. 

Light refreshments will be provided and we welcome suggestions for upcoming event topics. 

This event will take place in the Quad Courtyard.

Please RSVP here.

Please join the Belfer Center’s Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and Defense Project for a seminar on the current European security landscape with Janne Kuusela, Defense Policy Director of Finland. Mr. Kuusela will discuss Finland’s recent NATO bid, security challenges for Northern Europe, the future of European defense cooperation and its implications for the transatlantic relationship. Professor Eric Rosenbach, co-Director of the Belfer Center, will moderate the discussion.

This event will be hybrid.

As the world closely watches the war in Ukraine, the question of whether or not Taiwan could be the next location of a similar attack has risen throughout policy and academic circles. Even though China has publicly stated that Ukraine and Taiwan are completely different circumstances, are there parallels or indications that Beijing is altering its strategy towards Taiwan? Furthermore, are there critical lessons that can be learned which will bolster Taiwan's defense? Please join the Defense Project and the Taiwan Workshop at the Fairbank Center for a conversation on these topics led by Steven Goldstein, former Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College, Associate of the Fairbank Center and director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University.

This discussion will be moderated by Chris Li, Director of Research at the Asia-Pacific Initiative, and Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Join the Belfer Center's Economic Diplomacy Initiative (EDI) for a conversation with Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, on the evolution of U.S.-China digital and technological competition. The event will be moderated by Aditi Kumar, Executive Director of the Belfer Center, and Chris Li, Research Fellow with EDI.

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