Diplomacy and International Politics

A stronger US foreign policy begins by convincing the American public it’s worth it. Join Professor Nicholas Burns and Congressman Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) for a Future of Diplomacy seminar discussion on the intersection between domestic and foreign policy.

Lunch will be served.

A seminar with Lama Mourad, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Former U.S. Permanent Representatives to NATO Douglas Lute and Nicholas Burns highlight ten major challenges to NATO in a new report, NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis, and offer recommendations to bolster this critically important alliance.

A seminar with Lihi Ben Shitrit, MEI Research Fellow and Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia.

A seminar with Kimberly Guiler, MEI Research Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Government, University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Nicholas Burns and Kåre Aas, Ambassador of Norway to the United States, will discuss the role of diplomacy in combating climate change and the precarious state of our shared oceans. 

Co-sponsored by the Arctic Initiative and the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center. 

Please join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship (PETR) for a JFK Jr Forum event on Brexit featuring Amanda Sloat, PETR Fellow, and Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook, PETR Executive Director. 

A seminar with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University.

Professor Nicholas Burns will moderate a discussion with Jason Rezaian who was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America when he was the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief. Rezaian will speak about his eighteen-month imprisonment and the  tense diplomatic situation it caused as chronicled in his new book Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison.

Open to Harvard ID holders only. Coffee and light breakfast will be served.

A seminar with Steffen Hertog, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. Moderated by Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University and MEI Faculty Affiliate.