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Natalie Jaresko at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Benn Craig

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Natalie Jaresko discusses her time as Finance Minister of Ukraine with Harvard's Future of Diplomacy Project

| Dec. 21, 2016

Natalie Jaresko (MPP ’89), former Finance Minister of Ukraine, returned to Harvard on October 31st, 2016 to take part in the Future of Diplomacy Project’s international speaker series. In a public seminar moderated by Faculty Director Nicholas Burns, Jaresko, who currently serves as chairwoman of the Aspen Institute Kyiv, reflected on her time in office from 2014 to 2016. In her two years in office, the Ukrainian government  had to contend with the Russian annexation of Crimea, a national debt crisis, widespread governmental corruption, and political instability.

In this photo reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a prisoner walks through a communal pod inside an area of the Guantanamo Bay detention center known as Camp 6, an area for prisoners who are considered "highly compliant" with the rules.

(AP Photo)

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Perspectives on the CIA Torture Report

December 10, 2014

Following the December 8 release of the U.S. Senate’s Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, several members of the Belfer Center community commented on the report and its release. John Deutch, David Ignatius, Rami Khouri, and Michael Morell add their perspectives.

David Ignatius Discusses Middle East Crises

Ben Lamont

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David Ignatius Discusses Middle East Crises

Oct. 22, 2013

David Ignatius, foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Post and Senior Fellow with The Future of Diplomacy Project addressed students and faculty in a wide-ranging conversation with Nicholas Burns, Faculty Director of The Future of Diplomacy Project that spanned his professional choices in journalism, his career as a writer of fiction and his views on current developments in the Middle East.