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Nuclear Iran: Not Inevitable

Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
March 3, 2009
9:30-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: David Albright

Related Projects: Managing the Atom, International Security, Science, Technology, and Public Policy

David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington, D.C. will present a Managing the Atom seminar entitled "Nuclear Iran: Not Inevitable," beginning at 9:30am in the Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369. All are welcome and invited to attend.

For the Common Defense: A Study of American Military Affairs

Lecture Series
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
March 3, 2009
4:10-5:30 p.m. - Study Group

Bringing Soldiers Home – Reintegration and Combat Trauma – (LTC Gibson)

The Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series

Seminar
Open to the Public - Fainsod Room, Littauer-324
March 4, 2009
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Hosted by: Dr. Meghan L. O'Sullivan

China, Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow, the Brookings Institution

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Playing the Ethnic Card: Party Networks and Violence in the Balkans

Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
March 5, 2009
12:15-2:00 p.m.

Speaker: Linda Kirschke, Research Fellow, International Security/Intrastate Conflict Programs

Related Project: International Security

This seminar will examine the rise of ethnic cleansing during periods of regime change. It will investigate why, during the 1990s multiparty transitions, ruling elites in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia sponsored large-scale, ethnic cleansing, whereas in Romania, leaders did not employ this tactic.

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

Simulations of Agents vs. Agents Warfare in Cyberspace

Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
March 5, 2009
4:30-6:00 p.m. - Presentation and Discussion

Dr. Steven Y.Goldsmith, Sandia National Laboratories co-hosted by the Belfer Center and Center for International Studies at MIT.

The Honorable Elaine L. Chao, Former U.S. Labor Secretary

Director's Luncheon
RSVP required - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
March 6, 2009
12:00-1:00 p.m. - NOTE TIME

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors' Lunch with Elaine Chao on Friday, March 6th the Belfer Center Library (L369).

Are the Culture Wars Over? Religion, the 2008 Election, and the New Quest for Community

Non-Belfer Event

Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
March 9, 2009
12:00-2:00 p.m.

Charles Duelfer

Director's Luncheon
RSVP required - Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
March 9, 2009
12:15-1:45 p.m.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Managing the Atom will host a Directors' Lunch with Charles Duelfer on Monday, March 9th in Taubman Nye-A.

Women as Agents of Change

Global Issues Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
March 9, 2009
3:00-4:00 p.m. - Presentation and Discussion

with Dr. Paula Dobriansky, Belfer Center Senior Fellow & Former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs.

Afghanistan and Pakistan

Non-Belfer Event

Lecture
Open to the Public - Boston Public Library
March 10, 2009

Speakers to be announced
Topic: Newfound hopes for stability in Iraq have shifted the U.S. military focus back to Afghanistan and Pakistan, one of the most volatile border regions in the world. What impact will this renewed interest have on the two states as well as on U.S. defense strategy?