EVENTS ARCHIVE
Journalists Covering Global Interests and Local Failures
Panel Discussion
Open to the Public
April 12, 2012
Peruvian miners turn rain forest into wastelands. Corruption and mismanagement keep West Africans from clean drinking water. Hear these and other stories from international journalists who are mapping the impact of globalization on people and the planet.
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"North Korea- What's Next?", a seminar with Siegfried S. Hecker
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 12, 2012
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Related Projects: Managing the Atom, International Security, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Following a provocative 2010, the year 2011 was one of diplomatic rapprochement by North Korea. Yet, Pyongyang continued to increase its nuclear capabilities to make its nuclear weapons program more threatening. Then, surprisingly Pyongyang nearly concluded a deal with the U.S. to halt its nuclear program the week before Kim Jong-il died in December. Under the leadership of Kim Jong-un Pyongyang agreed to the deal on Feb. 29, only to announce a week later, to the disbelief of Washington, that it would launch a space probe. Professor Hecker will discuss what to expect next in nuclear developments in North Korea.
Can the Revolution in Tunisia put North Africa back on the world stage?
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
April 12, 2012
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Related Project: Middle East Initiative
A seminar with Francis Ghiles, Political scientist, former reporter with The Financial Times, reporting on international capital markets and North Africa.
Bankers, Bureaucrats, and the Bond Market: A Financial History of the Russian Revolution, 1900–1917
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 12, 2012
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Hassan Malik, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy/International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
This seminar will examine the links between international financial markets and the Russian Revolution and show how the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 can in fact be understood to be at root the story of two crises of Russian finance. In doing so, the seminar will also explore the interactions of private financiers and the state and the relationship between private capital flows and national security.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
American Academy forum to examine North Korea’s nuclear program
Panel Discussion
Invitation Only - AAAS, House of the Academy
April 12, 2012
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Moderator: Steven E. Miller, director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-chair of the American Academy’s Committee on International Security Studies.
Speaker: Siegfried S. Hecker, senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and one of the few westerners to visit North Korea’s nuclear facilities, Stephen Bosworth, former U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of North Korea, and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
On April 12, two leading North Korea experts will examine these developments and the broader geopolitical and nonproliferation implications of Pyongyang’s nuclear program at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The event (invitation required) begins at 6 p.m. at the Academy’s Cambridge, Mass., headquarters.
FORUM: A Public Address by General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Forum Event
Open to the Public - John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
April 12, 2012
6:00 p.m.-
A public address by General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
