Asia & the Pacific

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Yvonne Yew Offers Insight into Crucial Asian Security Issues

    Author:
  • Ramiro Gonzalez Lorca
| Summer 2013

"Researching Asian security issues has never been more topical," Yvonne Yew said in discussing her work at the Belfer Center. Despite Asia's economic growth, she said, "simmering tensions, territorial disputes, nuclear proliferation concerns, and military skirmishes serve to potentially undermine the region's peace and prosperity. As a former Singaporean diplomat and representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yew is in a unique position to view security issues spurred by the momentous and ongoing rise of Asia."

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Belfer in Brief

Summer 2012

Happenings and occurrences in and around the Belfer Center.

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Quarterly Journal: International Security

Paul Doty's Legacy Lives on Through Influential Journal

| Spring 2012

As soon as Paul Doty launched what is now Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 1974, he began planning a scholarly journal on international security. He shrugged off colleagues’ concerns that there would be little market for such a journal.Thirty-six years after the first issue appeared in the summer of 1976, the Belfer Center’s quarterly International Security consistently ranks No. 1 or No. 2 out of over 70 international affairs journals surveyed by Thomson Reuters each year.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

PDP Leads Delegation to Taiwan, China

Spring 2005

On January 22-29, 2005 the Preventive Defense Project (PDP), in collaborationwith the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, led a U.S. delegation toTaipei, Shanghai, and Beijing. This representsthe seventh Track II strategic security dialoguewith Chinese defense, military, diplomatic, andacademic leaders led by PDP in as many years.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Spotlight: Monica Duffy Toft

Spring 2005

Why do some groups see violence as necessary, while others do not? This is the question that has motivated Monica Duffy Toft's research on civil war, and it continues to be her central question as an  associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and faculty associate of the Belfer Center.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SPRING 2004

Spring 2004

International Security is America's leading journal of security affairs. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary security issues and discusses their conceptual and historical foundations. The journal is edited at the Belfer Center and published quarterly by the MIT Press. Questions may be directed to: IS@harvard.edu