BELFER CENTER NEWSLETTER AND OTHER MATERIALS
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Spring 2011
"Stavins Notes Successes of Cancun Climate Meetings"
Belfer Center Newsletter
The Cancun Agreements are notable in that emissions mitigation targets were set for some 80 countries, including all the major economies, and the world’s largest emitters (among them China, the United States, the European Union, India, and Brazil) have signed up for targets and actions to reduce emissions by 2020, according to Robert Stavins.
Spring 2011
"JACQUELINE (JILL) HAZELTON: Does Counterinsurgency as State-building Work?"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Maria Costigan and Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2009–2011
For her dissertation, Jacqueline (Jill) Hazelton, a research fellow with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program, compares two models of counterinsurgency (COIN).
Summer 2011
"What Role Should the U.S. Play in Middle East?"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, Ashraf Hegazy, Former Executive Director, The Dubai Initiative, Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
The Belfer Center's Graham Allison, Nicholas Burns, Ashraf Hegazy, Joseph S. Nye, and Stephen Walt consider the U.S.'s shifting foreign policy in the Middle East.
Belfer Center
Summer 2009
"Featured Fellows: Thomas Hegghammer and Maya Tudor"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Thomas Hegghammer, Former Associate, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program, 2009–2010; Former Research Fellow, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program, 2008–2009 and Maya Tudor, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Intrastate Conflict Program, 2008-2009
Belfer Center Research Fellows Thomas Hegghammer and Maya Tudor conduct policy-relevant research.
Summer 2011
"After Fukushima: How Should Nuclear Regulators Respond?"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and William H. Tobey, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
With the nuclear crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi reactor continuing more than a month after the initial damage and radiation leaks, several Center experts responded to the question of what actions should be taken now by nuclear regulators around the world.
Fall 2004
"A Tribute to Harvey Brooks"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Harvey Brooks passed away at the age of 88 on May 28, 2004, at the home on Brewster Street in Cambridge that he shared with his wife Helen for more than fifty years. He was the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus, at the Kennedy School, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, in Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and the founder in 1976 and director until 1986 of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Kennedy School's Center for Science and International Affairs, today known as the Belfer Center.
August 7, 2012
Middle East Mosaic 2012
By Noelle Janka, Former Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
The Mosaic is the annual newsletter of the Middle East Initiative. The entire newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Jay Connor, 2011
June 9, 2011
Middle East Mosaic 2011
By Noelle Janka, Former Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
The Middle East Initiative annual newsletter, Spring 2011 issue.
Martha Stewart
Winter 2010-11
"Turkey’s Foreign Minister Opens Crown-Belfer Middle East Series"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Noelle Janka, Former Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu opened the inaugural event of the Crown-Belfer Middle East Seminar Series in September. The series is a joint venture between the Belfer Center and Brandeis' Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Fall 2004
"Inside the 9/11 Commission"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Bonnie Jenkins, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2004-2005
Recently I had the privilege of working as a counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission"). When I was appointed by Philip Zelikow to the counterterrorism policy team, I was both honored and apprehensive about the challenges ahead.
