UPCOMING EVENTS
Emerging Energy Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation: Comparative State-level Media Analysis
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 13, 2008
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Jennie Stephens, Research Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Environment and Natural Resources, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
This research explores state-level variation in perceptions of and discourse on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and wind technology. The results are based primarily on comparative media analysis of state-level newspapers. The news media plays an important role in developing the public's perceptions of risks and benefits of emerging technologies because the media plays an interpretive function linking technical assessments of experts to the psychological assessments of laypersons. Different state-level perceptions of and discourse on risks and benefits of emerging energy technologies are likely contributing to energy technology deployment decisions.
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Foreign-Imposed Regime Change in Interstate Wars
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 15, 2008
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Alexander B. Downes, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
Why do states overthrow and replace the governments of other states in some instances but not in others? Does foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) achieve the goals of the intervening state, or does it more often backfire and undercut the intervener's interests? What are the effects of FIRC on the target state and the broader region?
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The Emergence of Private Equity in the GCC Region: Opportunities and Challenges
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 16, 2008
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Related Projects: The Dubai Initiative, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
A brown bag seminar with Ant Bozkaya, Joint Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative and Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
ROK-U.S. Alliance: The Present and Future
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 19, 2008
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kwang-Chan Ahn, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
With his long-term experience in military and government posts that dealt with matters directly relating to the ROK-U.S. alliance, the speaker will put forth an alliance for the future.
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Cooperation under Unipolarity: Alliance Behavior in Post–Cold War U.S. Military Interventions
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 22, 2008
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Sarah Kreps, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
When does the U.S. conduct its foreign military interventions unilaterally and when does it do so multilaterally? What explains the variation in U.S. cooperation behavior in the post–Cold War empirical record? Does unipolarity "select for" unilateralism or do other factors better explain U.S. choices between unilateralism and multilateralism?
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Deciding Not to Kill: Local-level Processes of Ethnic Cleansing in World War II Bosnia
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 29, 2008
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Emily Greble Balic, Research Fellow, International Security/Intrastate Conflict Programs
Related Project: International Security
When is it disadvantageous for members of a local elite to participate in a state-sponsored genocide? How do states react when towns or regions disregard national orders to ethnically cleanse certain segments of the population? This seminar explores these questions by examining how the city of Sarajevo interpreted and implemented a state agenda of ethnically cleansing Serbs during the Second World War.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
