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March 16, 2009
"Report from the Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Russia -- The Right Direction for U.S. Policy Toward Russia"
By Sasha Talcott, Director of Communications and Outreach
With the leadership of the Bipartisan Commission on U.S. Policy towards Russia, established by the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School and the Nixon Center in Washington, Belfer Center Director Graham Allison met last week in Moscow with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
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March 12, 2009
"Professors Nye, Walt, and Ruggie of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center Named to List of Most Influential Faculty in Foreign Affairs"
By Beth Maclin, Communications Assistant
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joseph Nye, a member of the Belfer Center board of directors, is the most influential international relations scholar on U.S. foreign policy in the last 20 years, while the Belfer Center’s Stephen Walt and John Ruggie both rank among the 20 most influential academics in international relations, according to a biannual survey of international relations faculty by the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project.
March 4, 2009
"Sir John Gieve Named Senior Fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs"
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
Sir John Gieve, former deputy governor of Bank of England, has been named senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He will work on the international economic crisis and on the differing UK and US approaches to countering terrorism.
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March 3, 2009
Ambassador Paula Dobriansky Named Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center
By Sasha Talcott, Director of Communications and Outreach and Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, former under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs under President George W. Bush, will join Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as a senior fellow, Belfer Center director Graham Allison announced today.
March 2, 2009
NATO expert Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall named to national security posts
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, PDP Founding Senior Advisor and CISAC Senior Research Scholar, has been named special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council.
February 26, 2009
PDP Co-Director Ashton Carter Nominated as Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
By Beth Maclin, Communications Assistant
President Obama has nominated PDP Co-Director Dr. Ashton B. Carter to serve as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L).
February 26, 2009
Harvard Kennedy School’s Ashton Carter Nominated as Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
By Beth Maclin, Communications Assistant and Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities
President Barack Obama announced Monday that he has nominated Dr. Ashton B. Carter to serve as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
Belfer Center
February 13, 2009
Demographic Projections Predict Fundamentalist Populations Surpassing Secular Counterparts
By Beth Maclin, Communications Assistant and Eric Kaufmann, Former Research Fellow, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program
According to demographic projections, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian fundamentalists will gain significant ground against their liberal and secular counterparts by 2050, even surpassing them in some cases, Belfer Center Fellow Eric Kaufmann said at last week’s International Security Program (ISP) brownbag presentation.
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February 12, 2009
There is hope, and a lot of work needed, for peace after Gaza
By Beth Maclin, Communications Assistant
Israelis and Palestinians must reconcile their differences from within before they can have productive talks with each other about moving toward a peace agreement, according to two Middle East experts at Wednesday’s [February 11] John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, “The Road to Peace After Gaza.”
January 29, 2009
William H. Tobey Named Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications and William H. Tobey, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
William H. Tobey, deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) from 2006 to 2009 and a Harvard Kennedy School graduate (MPP ‘84), will start February 2nd as a senior fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he will work with the Center’s nuclear team.
