Future of Diplomacy Project

Yukiya Amano is Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA, an intergovernmental organization based in Vienna, works with its Member States and partners to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies and prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Co-sponsored by the Project on Managing the Atom and the Future of Diplomacy Project

Join Ash Carter, Tzipi Livni, Nicholas Burns (moderator) and Udi Dekel as they examine the challenges and opportunities for the United States and Israel in a changing and volatile Middle East. RSVP required. Harvard affiliates only. Closed to public.

Join the Future of Diplomacy Project Executive Director Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook in a conversation with Paris Sciences Lettres Vice President Edouard Husson as he discusses There Is No Alternative: Was the rise of populism in Germany favored by Angela Merkel's favorite formula?

In partnership, the Future of Diplomacy Project, the Institute of Politics and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs welcome former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker for a conversation with Nicholas Burns on the Economy, Global Challenges and America's Future.

Join the Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty Director Nicholas Burns in a conversation about the United States - Cuban relationship with Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, former the Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. 

Admission policy: Harvard Kennedy School students, fellows, faculty and staff only. 

In his new book, “Fractured Continent: Europe’s Crises and the Fate of the West,” William Drozdiak, former foreign editor of The Washington Post, persuasively argues that the dream of a ‘United States of Europe’ is unravelling with dramatic consequences for Americans as well as Europeans, changing the nature of our relationships with longtime allies and even threatening global security. In conversation with Future of Diplomacy Project Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook, Drozdiak will probe the health of the transatlantic relationship and the impact of weakening Western democracies on the international system.

A public address by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

Followed by a conversation with Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University.

Author and New Yorker columnist Robin Wright will speak of the Jihadi threat 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. 

The historical promises of European integration, peace, prosperity and a powerful voice in a globalized world, seem to have lost their appeal. War in the east, economic and social meltdown in the south, millions of refugees, xenophobia and nationalism have a led to Brexit, Le Pen and the AfD, but have the elections in The Netherlands, France and Germany turned the tide?

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a special event with His Excellency Peter Wittig, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States who will discuss “Transatlantic Relations in a World in Turmoil.” The Project’s Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook, will moderate. This event is co-sponsored by the Diplomacy Professional Interest Council. Light refreshments will be available. No RSVP required.