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Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi and Yemen U.N. Ambassador Khaled Hussein Al-Yamani hold a press conference, Monday Nov. 13, 2017 at U.N. headquarters.

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Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

[AT CAPACITY] "Saudi Arabia: Amidst Turbulence and Hope," Lunch with Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi

Wed., Nov. 29, 2017 | 12:15pm - 1:30pm

One Brattle Square - Room 350

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Saudi & GCC Security Seminar with Ambassador Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, on Wednesday, November 29th from 12:15-1:30pm in One Brattle 350.

Lunch from Flour Bakery will be provided. RSVP below. First come, first served.

This event is at capacity. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please contact Caitlin Chase.

tehran, iran

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Blog Post - Iran Matters

"Tehran: A City of Hope, Participation and Prosperity"

    Author:
  • Sahar Saeidnia
| Nov. 22, 2017

One might find the motto of the newly elected reformist mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Ali Najafi, surprising and inconsistent with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) political project. Or, conversely, one might interpret it, along with the victory of many reformist candidates in the 2017 local council elections, as a sign of the regime’s opening. Yet, this binary undermines the “complexity of the Iranian puzzle” and is reductive of domestic political processes that have shaped competitive Iranian factionalist politics since 1979.

A street-level view of Cleveland, Ohio in 1930.

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Seminar - Open to the Public

"Every Citizen a Statesman": Democracy and Foreign Policy in the American Century

Thu., Dec. 14, 2017 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

One Brattle Square - Room 350

Speaker:  David Allen, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program

In the middle of the twentieth century, foreign policy elites led a national movement to create democratic, foreign policy publics in communities across America, building what we now know as World Affairs Councils. This seminar will take Cleveland as its case study, explaining the rise and fall of the movement for "citizen education in world affairs" through the city where had seemed to have most success, in the 1930s and 1940s, and yet went through the steepest decline even before the Vietnam War. Americans, in other words, tried to build a democratic foreign policy, but they failed. This seminar demonstrates how and why.

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

Navy of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution commandos and missile boats in Great Prophet IX Maneuver in the general area of Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, 25–27 February 2015.

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Seminar - Open to the Public

No Conquest, No Defeat: Iran's National Security Policies

Thu., Dec. 7, 2017 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

One Brattle Square - Room 350

Speaker: Ariane Tabatabai, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program

Ariane Tabatabai will discuss the role of strategic culture in shaping Iran's national security policies. She will map the Iranian national security decision-making process and the drivers framing the country's security thinking and policies.

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

Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, on a panel on 'Transformations in the Arab World' at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013.

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Director Series - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

"The Case for Palestinian Empowerment, Especially Under Occupation," Belfer Center and MEI Director's Breakfast with Salam Fayyad

Wed., Dec. 6, 2017 | 8:30am - 10:00am

Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Middle East Initiative will co-sponsor a Director's Breakfast with Salam Fayyad on "The Case for Palestinian Empowerment, Especially Under Occupation" in the Belfer Center Library (L369). The event will be moderated by Nicholas Burns, Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Middle East Initiative. 

Analysis & Opinions - Harvard Business Review

More Training Won't Reduce Your Cyber Risk

| Nov. 24, 2017

How many times have you had to watch your company’s latest cybersecurity training video? An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. Are the hackers always one step ahead? Are we impossible to train? Or are we being taught the wrong lessons?

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The United Kingdom's Experience in Developing and Delivering Physical Protection Workshops

| November 2017

This paper discusses the development and delivery of a workshop on the “Fundamentals of Physical Protection”, which has been run since the early 1990s, as part of the UK’s Global Threat Reduction Programme (GTRP). Over the years, the workshop has brought together a wide range of international practitioners – from operators, regulators and government bodies to share their nuclear security knowledge and experiences.