19 Events

President Donald J. Trump signs an EO on Iran Sanctions in the Green Room at Trump National Golf Club, August 5, 2018, in Bedminster Township, New Jersey.

White House Photo/Shealah Craighead

Seminar - Open to the Public

Turning Paper Screws: The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions in International Security

Thu., Apr. 9, 2020 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Online

Speaker: Ariel Petrovics, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Economic sanctions are one of the most common coercive tools of foreign policy, used regularly in an effort to change target state behavior. Yet despite their versatility and prevalence in international relations, sanctions are at best an unreliable tool of foreign policy. Indeed, many of the most important and publicized sanction attempts have failed to produce any desired change in the target. Existing literature on the effectiveness of sanctions has largely focused on whether or not sanctions eventually succeed, but this overlooks the arguable more policy relevant questions of when and under what conditions sanctions are effective tools of statecraft. The speaker's research  finds that sanctions with the greatest implications for international security — such as those that combat nuclear proliferation or foreign military aggression — fail even more catastrophically than their less salient counterparts.

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Click here. Meeting ID number: 810311271

<em>Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier</em>

Special Series - Open to the Public

Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier

Fri., Oct. 28, 2016 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Harvard Book Store welcomes the Harvard Kennedy School's Venkatesh Narayanamurti and University of Virginia's Toluwalogo Odumosu for a discussion of their book, Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier. This event includes a book signing.

Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and the Environment and Natural Resources Program

<em>Cycles of Invention and Discovery</em> Book Launch

Special Series - Open to the Public

Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Book Launch

Wed., Oct. 26, 2016 | 4:30pm - 6:15pm

Tracing the history of the problematic "basic" and "applied" categories, Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier documents how historical views of policymakers and scientists have led to the construction of science as a pure ideal on the one hand and of engineering as a practical (and inherently less prestigious) activity on the other

Ripe cocoa pods

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Special Series - Open to the Public

Climate Change and the Cocoa Industry: Leveraging Science and Technology for Sustainability

Wed., Apr. 30, 2014 | 2:30pm - 5:00pm

Littauer Building - Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor

The aim of this workshop is to explore the role of science and technology in adapting the global cocoa and chocolate industry to climate change. More specifically, the workshop will develop a roadmap on how to leverage the power of institutions of higher learning to respond to the sustainability challenges facing the industry. The US$95 billion is used as a source of inspirational models on how to respond to sustainability challenges facing other major global agricultural commodities.

Carbon Taxes and Deficit Reductions

Special Series - Open to the Public

Carbon Taxes and Deficit Reductions

Mon., Dec. 10, 2012 | 12:15pm - 1:45pm

Lunch will be served.

RSVP not required, but please sign in when you arrive.

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Special Series - Open to the Public

Financing Agricultural Institutions in Africa

Fri., Apr. 27, 2012 | 9:00am - 12:00pm

Harvard Kennedy School - Hauser Center Conference Room

The goal of this brainstorming session is to discuss the challenge of financing agricultural institutions and related projects. By bringing together a group of experts in the fields of finance, consulting, academia, and nonprofit organizations, we will explore the various avenues available for supporting such capacity-building institutions.