James F. Smith
Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-7831
Fax: 617-495-8963
Email: james_smith@hks.harvard.edu
October 6, 2011
Rosenbach Tapped for Pentagon Cyber Policy Role
News
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
CAMBRIDGE, MA. - Eric Rosenbach, a veteran Army intelligence officer who served as executive director for research in the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs from 2007 to 2010, has been appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the appointment on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Washington. Rosenbach left the Kennedy School in 2010 to become managing director of the Markle Foundation, handling national security issues, and moved earlier this year to a senior role at Good Harbor Consulting, a leading consulting firm on cyber-security and related issues. He remained a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center and an adjunct lecturer at the school, teaching a course on counterterrorism policy and national security law.
(Photo by Marcus Halevi)
September 20, 2011
"Arab Uprisings Shift to Political Struggles"
News
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Many of this year’s Arab uprisings are evolving from angry popular revolts into drawn-out political struggles to build democratic systems that will protect basic civic rights and social justice, analysts told a John F. Kennedy Jr. forum audience at Harvard Kennedy School on Monday, Sept. 19.
Photo by Tom Fitzsimmons
September 7, 2011
"9/11 Ten Years On: Experts Urge Greater Diplomacy"
News
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
U.S. policymakers should use the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks as an opportunity to shift from a military-driven “global war on terror” to a policy built more on diplomacy, outreach and persuasion, panelists told an audience of students, faculty and community members at a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on September 6. The Forum, titled “9/11: Ten Years On,” included former government officials and current Kennedy School faculty members Graham Allison, Nicholas Burns, and Juliette Kayyem, along with Michael Leiter, until recently the director of the National Counterterroirsm Center.
June 8, 2011
The U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter: April - May 2011
Newsletter
By Simon Saradzhyan, Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Belfer, ISKRAN Complete Groundbreaking Joint Assessment of Nuclear Terrorism Threat; G-8 Extends Partnership to Prevent Spread of WMD Beyond 2012; Obama and Medvedev Discuss Nuclear Security and Counterterrorism; “Preventing the Next Fukushima”; more.
June 6, 2011
"First Joint U.S.-Russia Assessment of Nuclear Terror Threat"
Press Release
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Researchers from the United States and Russia today issued a joint assessment of the global threat of nuclear terrorism, warning of a persistent danger that terrorists could obtain or make a nuclear device and use it with catastrophic consequences. The first joint threat assessment by experts from the world’s two major nuclear powers concludes: “If current approaches toward eliminating the threat are not replaced with a sense of urgency and resolve, the question will become not if but when, and on what scale, the first act of nuclear terrorism occurs.”
Photo by Sharon Wilke
May 19, 2011
"Nuclear Threats, Then and Now"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Harvard Gazette
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
In 1985, researchers at the Harvard Kennedy School published a book called “Hawks, Doves, and Owls,” and gave it an ambitious subtitle: “An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War.” Those scholars gathered again at the School on Monday (May 16) for a seminar on the current challenges in avoiding nuclear war — and to marvel at just how drastically the nuclear threat has morphed in the two decades since the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed.
Summer 2011
"Q & A: Lawrence H. Summers"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
At a special Forum organized by the Belfer Center on April 5, Director Graham Allison welcomed Larry Summers home to Harvard. On behalf of the community, Allison expressed “gratitude for Larry’s service to the nation and pride in having him back as a colleague.” A member of the Belfer Center’s Board of Directors, he will be co-director (with John Haigh) of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Here are excerpts from David Gergen’s recent interview with Summers at the Kennedy School’s JFK Jr. Forum (the webcast can be viewed at the Institute of Politics website).
Summer 2011
"Spotlight: Paul Volcker"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve and recent adviser to President Obama, is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and a longtime member of the Belfer Center’s International Council. In May, he received the School’s Richard E. Neustadt Award, presented annually to a person “who has created powerful solutions to public problems, drawing on research and intellectual ideas.”
Sharon Wilke
May 10, 2011
Brazil sees new role for G20 in Foreign Policy
Media Feature
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Brazil’s longest-serving foreign minister, Celso Amorim, says a change in attitude allowed Brazil to join the ranks of the world’s emerging powers.
In the early 1990s, he recalled, an article described Brazil as a country that punched below its weight. “Now I read in the Brazilian media that Brazil punches above its weight,” Amorim told a seminar at Harvard Kennedy School on April 28.
Spring 2011
"Belfer Center Still Building New U.S.-Russia Bridges"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Since the 1950s, scientists and scholars from Harvard University have been building bridges between the United States and Russia to help prevent nuclear catastrophe. The early years focused on slowing the nuclear arms race. The last two decades have targeted the risks of nuclear proliferation and terrorism. Carrying forward this legacy, specialists from Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs have launched three ambitious U.S.-Russian partnerships, designed to intensify action against nuclear terrorism and to safeguard the next wave of global nuclear energy expansion.
