Mailing address
One Brattle Square 511
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Emma Belcher
Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Contact:
Telephone: (617)-384-7473
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: emma_belcher@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Emma Belcher is a joint research fellow in the Belfer Center’s International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom and a Ph.D. Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Ms. Belcher’s dissertation examines international cooperation to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through the Proliferation Security Initiative. She is also a research assistant at the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies and recently published a chapter in Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism, Russell Howard and James Forest, eds., titled “Interdiction and Law Enforcement: Practical Measures that Should be Strengthened.”
Ms Belcher holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the school’s journal of international affairs — The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. She also holds a B.A. (Hons) in political science and a Diploma in Modern Languages (Arabic) from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
In 2005 and 2006, Ms Belcher served as a policy adviser on national security and international affairs in Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She has also served as an intern at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch in the Department of Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. Between 2000 and 2002, she was a public affairs officer at the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C.
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August 2009
"A Tighter Net: Strengthening the Proliferation Security Initiative"
Policy Brief
By Emma Belcher, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Australia and other countries should redouble their efforts to fix serious gaps in an international arrangement to stop maritime shipments of materials destined for weapons of mass destruction programs, according to the Brief. It argues that heightened concerns over North Korea provide an opportunity to bolster the Proliferation Security Initiative, a 95-country arrangement to promote interception of transfers of cargoes related to weapons of mass destruction.
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November 20, 2008
"Throwing Out the Bathwater, but Keeping the Baby"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Emma Belcher, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
"Resisting the temptation to renounce all things Bush, President-elect Barack Obama has astutely thrown himself behind the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a Bush administration effort to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, he should be wary in what manner he proposes to institutionalize it, lest it lose the very attributes that make it successful...."
April 2007
"Interdiction and Law Enforcement to Counter WMD-Terrorism: Practical Measures that Should be Strengthened"
Book Chapter
By Emma Belcher, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
