BELFER CENTER NEWSLETTER AND OTHER MATERIALS
Winter 2012-2013
"Center Affiliates Named Most Influential in Foreign Policy"
Belfer Center Newsletter
In September, Foreign Policy published lists of 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans whom FP believes have had the greatest influence on their party’s foreign policy. Both lists include several current and former Belfer Center affiliates.
Winter 2012-2013
"Cuban Missile Crisis Events Highlight Decision-Making"
Belfer Center Newsletter
During October 2012, the Belfer Center remembered the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 with a series of events that highlighted the threat and lessons that leaders can take from the most dangerous moment in human history.
Winter 2012-2013
"On Tap at Belfer Center: Oil and Water"
Belfer Center Newsletter
Leonardo Maugeri writes that oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity is likely to grow by nearly 20 percent by 2020—possibly prompting a plunge or even a collapse in oil prices.
Winter 2012-2013
"Center Team Advances Vital Research at Intersection of Water and Energy"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
Two years ago, Venkatesh (Venky) Narayanamurti and Laura Diaz Anadon, director and associate director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, set the stage for the Center’s energy research team to zero in on the challenges facing energy and the natural resource essential to it in many countries around the world—water. This article reviews some of their work to date.
Winter 2012-2013
Q&A with David Keith
Belfer Center Newsletter
David Keith is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. The award-winning scientist, who was named one of TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment in 2009, has worked near the interface of climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty years. He divides his time between Boston and Calgary, where he serves as president of Carbon Engineering—a start-up company developing industrial-scale technologies for capture of CO2 from ambient air. Here, Keith answers questions about his research and ideas for reducing climate change using innovative and sometimes controversial methods.
Winter 2012-2013
Spotlight: Susan Hockfield and the Magic of the Laboratory
Belfer Center Newsletter
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Susan Hockfield is the Marie Curie Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. After almost eight years as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is spending a sabbatical year based at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
Winter 2012-2013
"Saradzhyan Brings Insight, Experience to Center’s U.S. - Russian Research"
Belfer Center Newsletter
The English reporter and columnist A.N. Wilson once mused: “If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book.” Not only would it be a long book, it would likely cover a multitude of subjects, themes, and ideas. If Simon Saradzhyan, current fellow and former Russian journalist, were to write it, it would encompass everything from state and local politics in Russia and the Caucasus to issues of international security, nuclear terrorism, and diplomacy.
Winter 2012-2013
"Renshon Investigates Impact of Status Concerns on States and Individuals"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Stefanie Le
For Jonathan Renshon, interest in political psychology began at a young age from the influence of his father, Stanley Renshon, a political psychologist and professor of political science at The City University of New York.
Winter 2012-2013
"Why a Fellowship at the Belfer Center?"
Belfer Center Newsletter
During an event in September to inform National Defense University (NDU) International Fellows about research taking place at the Belfer Center, one NDU participant asked the panelists—all Center fellows—why they chose a fellowship at the Belfer Center in Cambridge rather than at a research center in Washington, D.C..
Winter 2012-2013
"Sletteland Studies Influence of Narratives on Political Discourse"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Stefanie Le
Anja Sletteland is a Ph.D. candidate in human geography from the University of Oslo. Her research deals with how the diverging narratives of the Israel-Palestine conflict play out in and shape political discourse. “There are many perspectives on what the Israel-Palestine conflict is really about,” Sletteland says, “but people tend to avoid dealing with perceptions counter to their own. What really matters are the narratives of the actors involved, since they’re the ones making the decisions.”
