Diplomacy and International Politics

Please join Future of Diplomacy Project and the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a conversation with Sir John Sawers, former head of the United Kingdom’s MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service), about the role of intelligence gathering in the 21st century.  We will discuss implications for intelligence gathering and surveillance in the 21st century given the shifting nature of the post-World War II framework of security alliances.  Other topics for this conversation include; the role of the intelligence community in shaping foreign policy, possible implications of Brexit on intelligence cooperation in Europe, and future prospects for the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The discussion is co-hosted by the Diplomacy Professional Interest Council and the British and Irish Caucus, and will be moderated by Helen Zhang, MC/MPA 2020 candidate and Australian foreign service officer.

A seminar with Steven T. Brooke on his new book Winning Hearts and Votes: Social Services and the Islamist Political Advantage from Cornell University Press. 

About the speaker: Tobias David, born in 1973, grew up in Leipzig (in the former GDR/East Germany) and spent most of his school years under the conditions of the GDR dictatorship. Even as a teenager he was involved in opposition groups under the protection of the Catholic Church and became politically active early on. The Peaceful Revolution of 1989, driven by the peace and civil rights movement, had a lasting impact on his life.

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project's Fisher Family Fellow, Tzipi Livni, and Senior Fellow, Robert Danin, for a discussion on America's shifting policies towards a dynamic region in turmoil.

Join us for a seminar on politicization and religious authority in the Middle East with A. Kadir Yildirim, Fellow at the Center for the Middle East, Rice Institute's Baker Institute for Public Policy. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.

Please join us for a panel discussing the unfolding implications of Israel's September 2019 elections. This panel will feature Ruth Calderon, former Deputy Speaker of  Knesset and Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard Law School, Rami Younis, co-founder of the Palestinian activist group Khotweh, former spokesperson for Palestinian member of Knesset Haneen Zoabi and Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, and Nadav Shelef, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This panel will be moderated by Yael Berda, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University's Department of Sociology. 

A seminar with Randa Slim, Senior Fellow and Director of the Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues program, Middle East Institute, Washington DC.

Join the Harvard European Law Association lunch talk on the Fragility of EU Law-making with Judith Merkies, former Member of the European Parliament and Álvaro Renedo Zalba, Spanish career diplomat.

Location: WCC 2009, Harvard Law School

Non-pizza lunch will be served

Join us for a conversation with Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and Ambassador Philippe Etienne, Ambassador of France to the United States and diplomatic adviser to the President of the French Republic.

This event will be moderated by Nicholas Burns, Faculty Chair, Future of Diplomacy Project and the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship.

A seminar with Matt Buehler, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee and Global Security Fellow, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy on his recent book Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa from Syracuse University Press.