Future of Diplomacy Project

Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Senior Fellow, Watson Center for International and Public Affairs, Brown University

This seminar will explore the nature of diplomacy and its strategic, tactical, and risk management roles in American statecraft. Case studies to be discussed include those of U.S. Cold War diplomacy in southern Africa and on the Taiwan issue as well as examples from European history, the Middle East, and elsewhere.

Please join us! Coffee, tea, and refreshments provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

This seminar is being held under the auspices of the joint HKS/MIT Program on Strategy, Security, and Statecraft.

The Future of Diplomacy Project welcomes Dr. Tim Oliver for a breakfast seminar conversation with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project on Brexit from his vantage point in Europe.

In a breakfast seminar with Professor Nick Burns, Dr Amanda Sloat will speak to the U.S.-Turkey relationship and the future of Syria as influenced by the two states.

Ambassador Michael Froman, former U.S. Trade Representative is welcomed to the JFK Jr. Forum by the Institute of Politics, the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. In an event co-chaired by Nicholas Burns and Lawrence H. Summers, Ambassador Froman will talk about American trade policy today.

As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael Szonyi.

Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam (Ret.), Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Asia Center and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Power Studies, will speak of the evolving India-China relationship in a discussion moderated by Nicholas Burns, Faculty Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics. Breakfast will be served.

Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center and Fisher Family Fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Project, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall talks about energy diplomacy in a conversation with Nicholas Burns, Faculty Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project.

Faculty Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project, Nicholas Burns holds an on the record conversation with Senator King about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Join the Future of Diplomacy Project in a conversation with the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Valentin Inzko about the lessons that can be learned from the peace process and state building in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the interests of regional geopolitical actors, and the path towards integration into NATO and the EU. Moderated by Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, the Founding Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project.

Breakfast will be served.