MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Winter 2008
"After Kyoto"
John F. Kennedy School of Government Bulletin
By Sasha Talcott, Director of Communications and Outreach
Robert Stavins has launched the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, a two-year effort to identify key design elements of a future international agreement on climate change. The project aims to help develop a plan that is “scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic” and useful to both developing and developed countries.
January 27, 2008
"Global Governance: To Strobe Talbott, It's Inevitable, To John Bolton, It's Surrender"
Washington Post
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"From start to finish, these books reflect their authors' very different sensibilities. Bolton opens with his experience as a student campaign volunteer for Goldwater in 1964 and spends most of the book recounting his political battles in great detail. Talbott begins with a wide-ranging and lofty discourse on the concepts of empires, nations and states in world history. Both books conclude with a discussion of global governance, which is where they wholly diverge."
January 18, 2008
"Stavins Keen to Strike a Balance"
Upstream
By Terry Slavin and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Harvard economist Robert Stavins has a lead role in setting the climate change agenda and he remains optimistic of progress, as long as the pragmatic approach wins the day.
January 2008
"Flooding Out and Drying Up in Southasia"
Himal Southasian, issue 1, volume 21
By Sunita Dubey and Ananth Chikkatur, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
In this essay, Dubey and Chikkatur describe how climate change is affecting the region from the Maldives to Pakistan, and what steps government and individuals can take to mitigate against it and adapt to it. They explore issues of food and economic security, climate injustice, and the need for sustainable lifestyles.
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January 2, 2008
"Scotland Yard to Probe Bhutto Death"
Washington Times
Xenia Dormandy, a former director for South Asia at the National Security Council and currently director of the Project on India and the Subcontinent at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, agreed that Mrs. Bhutto's assassination had put Mr. Musharraf's future in jeopardy.
"He is being widely blamed for the assassination attack by PPP cadre, either directly or for complicity in not providing her sufficient security,” Ms. Dormandy said.
The Insider Brief
December 30, 2007
"Pressure on U.S. to Rethink Pro-Pak Policies"
India Tribune
"He again has demonstrators on the streets. And, he has lost the one principal opposition leader with whom he appeared to be able to work," said Xenia Dormandy, director of the Project on India and the subcontinent at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. "It is unclear whether whoever replaces Benazir will hold the same accommodative views as she did."
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December 29, 2007
"Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? We All Did"
Globe and Mail
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto has engulfed Pakistan in grief and turmoil. But her death symbolizes the wider calamity that envelops us all - throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States. The real significance of this killing - and the others sure to follow - is not their surprise, but rather how common, almost inevitable, this sort of event has become in our part of the world. If we wish to end this horror show engulfing more Arab-Asian regions, and increasingly sucking in American and other Western armies, we should get serious about what it means and why it happens."
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December 11, 2007
"Pakistan: Corps is Ill-Equipped for 'War on Terror'"
Oxford Analytica
By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"A major overhaul of the Frontier Corps in terms of its mandate, service conditions, new training facilities and improved promotion prospects has the potential to rejuvenate the force. However, this is a long-term project, and there is little prospect that it can be transformed quickly to tackle the menace of Talibanisation."
December 7, 2007
"Designing Post-2012 International Climate Change Policy"
ClimatePolicy, An American Meteorological Society Project
By Joseph Aldy, Former Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
The 2007 UN-sponsored climate change negotiations opened in Bali, Indonesia this week. By the end of the conference on December 14, the world community may agree to a two-year "roadmap," as called for by the UN Secretary-General, for negotiating an agreement to guide climate change mitigation efforts after the end of the Kyoto Protocol's 2008–2012 commitment period....
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December 5, 2007
"Exchanging Rhetoric for Reason with Iran"
Metro Boston
By Jason Notte and Martin B. Malin, Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom
According to Martin B. Malin, executive director of the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the National Intelligence Estimate's not-so-shocking revelation may give the United States and its European allies greater latitude in their discussions with the Iranian government.
