NEWSLETTER ARTICLES
Spring 2004
"Rotberg Facilitates Landmark African Leadership Document"
Belfer Center Newsletter
A landmark Code of African Leadership was unveiled in March by the African Leadership Council (ALC), a group of current and former African leaders. Belfer Center Program on Intrastate Conflict Director Robert Rotberg, who serves as the Council's Interim Executive Director, facilitated the development of the document.
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.
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.
May 10, 2011
"Conference Probes Revolution, Reform in the Middle East"
Belfer Center Newsletter
More than 250 people joined experts from around the world in April for “Revolution & Reform: The Historic Transition in the Middle East,” a conference sponsored by the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative (DI). Leading scholars assessed the political, economic, and legal aspects of the turmoil engulfing the region this spring.
Photo by Martha Stewart
Spring 2011
"Juma: Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Greg Durham, Former Project Coordinator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project; Faculty Assistant to Calestous Juma
Africa can feed itself in a generation. Calestous Juma's newly released book The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa offers this bright outlook for the continent’s future.
Photo by Jay Connor
Spring 2011
"Views on Egypt: What's Next?"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Traci Farrell, Former Communications Assistant
Belfer Center faculty, fellows, and affiliates comment on the recent events in Egypt and the region, asking "What's next?"
VietNamNet
Spring 2010
"Belfer in Brief"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
News briefs related to activities of Belfer Center faculty, fellows, and staff.
GTIL
Winter 2009-10
"Agricultural Innovation in Africa: Addressing Climate-Smart Growth"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Beth Maclin, Former Communications Assistant, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Belfer Center's new Agriculture Innovation in Africa project will work to address the dual challenges of climate change and food shortages with the help of a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Winter 2007-2008
"School, Center Alum Robert Zoellick Takes Reins of World Bank"
Belfer Center Newsletter
Robert Zoellick, International Security Program research fellow (1999-2000) and Kennedy School alumnus, was appointed in July 2007 as the 11th president of the World Bank, the international poverty-alleviating organization owned by 185 member countries.
