BELFER CENTER NEWSLETTER AND OTHER MATERIALS
Photo by Martha Stewart
Summer 2009
"Q&A with Rory Stewart"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Rory Stewart, Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, Carr Center
Rory Stewart is the Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors. A former officer in the British Army and deputy governate coordinator with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, Stewart spent two years walking 6,000 miles across Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal - a journey he describes in his critically acclaimed book The Places in Between.
Photo by Eliza Grinnell, Harvard University
Summer 2009
"Spotlight with Venkatesh Narayanamurti"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Sasha Talcott, Director of Communications and Outreach and Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy; Professor of Physics, Harvard; Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Policy Project
Venkatesh (Venky) Narayanamurti, is the new director of the Belfer Center's Science, Technology, and Public Policy program. He will be named the Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School in July.
Summer 2009
"Notable Quotes"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Beth Maclin, Communications Assistant
Notable quotes from opeds and testimonies.
Summer 2009
"Newsmakers"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
Belfer Center Newsmakers.
Summer 2009
"Hot off the Presses"
Belfer Center Newsletter
New and notable books from the Belfer Center.
Summer 2009
"International Security Journal" Highlights
Belfer Center Newsletter
International Security is America's leading journal of security affairs. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary security issues and discusses their conceptual and historical foundations. The journal is edited at the Belfer Center and published quarterly by the MIT Press.
The Research Council, Oman
Summer 2009
"Belfer in Brief"
Belfer Center Newsletter
News from the Belfer Center.
Photo by Michael Casey
Summer 2009
"Center Scholars Suggest Way Ahead for U.S. in Afghanistan, Pakistan"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
"We have a clear and focused goal to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future," President Barack Obama said in a statement on March 27, 2009. Several members of the Belfer Center community comment on President Obama's plan.
Martha Stewart
Spring 2009
"From the Director"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
That President Barack Obama (Harvard Law School '91) enters office at a "hinge of history" is now a cliché, but no less true for having been often stated. Not only does the Great Recession look ever more depressing, but we simultaneously face daunting security challenges - from Iran's advancing nuclear program to increasing fragility of Pakistan.
Spring 2009
Belfer Center Newsletter Spring 2009
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
The Spring 2009 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter features recent and upcoming activities, research, and analysis by members of the Center community on critical global issues. This issue highlights Center faculty, affiliates, and alumni who have been asked to serve in key positions of the Obama administration. Policy recommendations to the new administration on preventing nuclear terrorism and enhancing energy innovation are also featured.
