FACT SHEETS AND HIGH-LEVEL OVERVIEW
March 11, 2009
Listen to "The Cross-Border Impact of Violent Events" with DI Fellow, Mohamad Al-Ississ
By Mohamad M. Al-Ississ, Former Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
In a Dubai Initiative Brown Bag Seminar on February 18, 2009, DI Fellow Mohamad Al-Ississ discussed the cross-border impact of violent events.
AP
March 6, 2009
War or Peace: President Obama’s Challenges in the Middle East
By R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics
The only way forward for the United States is to lead, but in a new way and with a new attitude.
March 2, 2009
Listen to Gholam Afkhami discuss US-Iranian relations
In a Dubai Initiative Seminar on February 11, Gholam Reza Afkhami linked misperceptions around current U.S.-Iranian relations to misperceptions of the Iranian revolution thirty years before. Arguing that to understand Iran and how it engages with other countries, Dr. Afkhami stressed that an understanding of the Iranian constitution is crucial.
Photo provided by Dickinson College
February 23, 2009
A Call to Public Service
By R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics
Ambassador Nicholas Burns speaks about America's need for "our students today to embrace public service as a career and way of life."
February 13, 2009
Listen to "Trading with Sanctioned States" with DI Fellow Bryan Early
By Bryan Early, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
In a Dubai Initiative Brown Bag Seminar on February 6, 2009, Bryan Early discussed how economic sanctions affect their targets' trade with third party states. Listen to an audio recording of his presentation and the discussion that followed.
Robert C. Stowe
December 15, 2008
Harvard Project Leadership Presents Key Lessons at Official COP 14 Side-Event
By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
In the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements' official side-event in Poznan, Poland, Professor Robert N. Stavins presented key findings from the project's Interim Report, which synthesizes an extensive research effort conducted by 27 teams of leading experts from developed and developing countries, whose goal is to identify key design principles of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture.
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November 13, 2008
"The Relationship between Culture and Security Has Changed"
By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"Three years ago, police raided a flat in West London and arrested one of the world's top jihadi internet operatives. Under the name Irhabi007 — terrorist 007 — he had posted videos of beheadings and other attacks on the official sites for the George Washington University and the state of Arkansas. He had given many jihadi networks around the world online lessons in hacking, propaganda, and weaponry. And Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — had recruited him to spread knowhow, footage of terrorist attacks, and inspirational messages from Osama bin Laden himself.
But perhaps the most remarkable thing about him was that at the time of his arrest, he was a twenty-three year old IT student who had done all this alone from his bedroom...."
November 13, 2008
Speech to the Center for the Advanced Study of India
By R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics
"It wasn’t that our motives were cynical or misplaced or that we wished misfortune for each other. We were never adversaries. In fact, time and again, from Harry Truman to JFK to Ronald Reagan, American Presidents called for a positive breakthrough in our relations with India. But, more often than not, and for different reasons, we never found the trust that governments need to develop a true partnership. Happily, that all changed when, on the American side, President Clinton and then President Bush made the ambitious and prescient strategic bet that India would rise in our time as one of the world’s great powers and that therefore we had, as a matter of basic self-interest, to forge a much closer relationship with it."
October 2008
Public Perception of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Workshop
By Jeffrey Bielicki, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2006–2009 and Jennie Stephens, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
On June 2-3, 2008, ETIP hosted a workshop on "Public Perception of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology."
September 15, 2008
North Korea's Future
By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Dr. John Park discusses possible scenarios for North Korea's future following renewed speculation over the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
