EVENTS
Friend in the Closet? Material Interests and Ideology in India-Israel Relations
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 23, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Research Fellow, International Security Program, Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Related Project: International Security
This seminar will provide an overview of India-Israel relations and will argue that there is a gap between India's material interests and its ideological positions and that this gap might be detrimental to the future of India-Israel bilateral relations.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
Iran: Compliance at the Cost of Nonproliferation?
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Neustadt Class Rm, Rubenstein G20
May 20, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Tytti Erästö, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Related Projects: International Security, Managing the Atom, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Iran's failure to comply with its non-proliferation obligations is viewed as one of the most urgent threats to the nuclear non-proliferation regime and international peace and security. Given that diplomacy has thus far not been successful in changing that country's conduct, the only available options for dealing with the problem seem to be increasingly crippling sanctions and, possibly, military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. The seminar presentation challenges the above assumptions by drawing attention to the absence of serious diplomatic efforts and lack of understanding of what is at stake for Iran in the dispute.
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NATO and the Projection of Partial Democracy: The Eastern Neighborhood, the Western Balkans, Afghanistan, and Libya
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 16, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Henrik Larsen, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
NATO by its rise as a political actor since the end of the Cold War has emphasized democratization as an increasingly important soft power objective in its relations with third countries. The seminar explains NATO's democratic agenda focusing on two regions and two operations: (1) the 'halted' enlargement vis-à-vis Georgia and Ukraine; (2) the ongoing enlargement process in the Western Balkans; (3) the state-building effort and drawdown from Afghanistan; (4) the 2011 intervention in Libya in the context of the Arab Spring.
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U.S. Navy Photo
Interservice Rivalry and Civilian Control
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 9, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jessica Blankshain, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
Is rivalry between uniformed military services harmful or beneficial in achieving healthy civil-military relations in the United States? This seminar will explore early-stage work that is part of an effort to fit the widely-recognized phenomenon of interservice rivalry into a more general theory of U.S. civil-military relations.
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Clausewitz and the Politics of War
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Neustadt Class Rm, Rubenstein G20
May 6, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Thomas Waldman, Research Fellow, University of York
Related Project: International Security
Clausewitz's aphorism that "war is merely the continuation of policy by other means" is widely quoted but often misconceived. The author of a new book, War, Clausewitz and the Trinity, Thomas Waldman will clarify the Prussian theorist's insights into the fundamental relationship between war and politics, highlight pitfalls in interpretation, and underline its critical importance for understanding contemporary war.
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Matson Photo Collection
The Open Door and U.S. Policy in Iraq between the World Wars
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 2, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Annie Tracy Samuel, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
Scholarship on U.S. involvement in the Middle East has traditionally maintained that after the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and refused to participate in the League of Nations mandate system, the United States returned to political isolation and watched events in the Middle East passively from the sidelines. This presentation challenges that narrative by arguing that the United States did have both interests in and a policy concerning Iraq during that time. The open door policy the U.S. government set out in the correspondence with Britain in 1920–1921 represents a full and cogent policy on Iraq that was advanced throughout the interwar period to protect American interests and standing in that country.
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Better Than The Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 25, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kelly M. Greenhill, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
Drawing upon findings from an array of original public opinion surveys, survey-based experiments, and cross-national case studies, Greenhill will illustrate the sometimes surprisingly influential role that such sources of "extra-factual" information (EFI) can play both in the conception of national security threats and in the formulation and implementation of government responses to such threats. Both micro-foundations of belief in these sources of EFI and the macro-level consequences if and when such ideas become widely disseminated and adopted will be explored; cases to be examined range from pre–World War I Britain through Nazi Germany to post-9/11 America.
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Confronting the Reality of a Rising Nuclear-armed China
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 18, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: David Kelley, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Related Projects: International Security, Managing the Atom, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
The rise of a nuclear-armed China is presenting the United States and its allies in the Asian-Pacific region with a new reality that they must confront. The presentation includes a brief discussion of the ideological and economic drivers behind China's rise, as well as its emergence in Asian-Pacific regional affairs. The presentation also discusses China's nuclear policies and forces, and how they are shaped by external factors such as ballistic missile defense.
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Iraqi Foreign Policymaking 2003–2013: Colonized, Weak, Fierce
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 11, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Nussaibah Younis, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
This presentation will trace Iraq's foreign policy production from 2003–2013.
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1957: The Origins of European Union & Lessons for Today
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 4, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Lucas Kello, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Related Project: International Security
The appearance of supranational union in the 1950s was the outcome of a contested attempt to remake the states system in Europe following the cataclysm of the Second World War. The project of Six yielded five major efforts at institutionalization in the lead up to the 1957 Rome attainment. Some, like the Coal and Steel Community, resulted in major triumphs of integration; others, such as the Defense Community, were sensational failures. This seminar will assess how and why integration progressed even as it failed so spectacularly, drawing insights for the resolution of today's European crisis.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
