SPEECHES
Sharon Wilke
February 22, 2012
The State of US-Pakistan Relations
On February 13th, 2012, Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan delivered an address at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for International Affairs and Science on US-Pakistan relations.
AP
March 6, 2009
War or Peace: President Obama’s Challenges in the Middle East
By Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
The only way forward for the United States is to lead, but in a new way and with a new attitude.
Dickinson College
February 23, 2009
A Call to Public Service
By Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
Ambassador Nicholas Burns speaks about America's need for "our students today to embrace public service as a career and way of life."
AP Photo
November 13, 2008
"The Relationship between Culture and Security Has Changed"
By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2008–2010
"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 Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
"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."
AP Photo
December 19, 2007
Risks of Recession, Prospects for Policy
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
In a speech delivered at the Brookings Institution, Lawrence Summers discusses the state of the U.S. economy: "Our current economic situation requires a comprehensive program of measures to contain the fallout from problems in the financial and housing sectors and to assure sufficient policy support for economic growth over the next several years. Perhaps because of a failure to appreciate the gravity of our current situation and the problems our political process has in responding quickly and collaboratively to emergent threats, such a comprehensive program is neither in place nor in immediate prospect."
The Center for National Policy - www.cnponline.org
May 24, 2006
Iran, North Korea and The Challenges of Proliferation
By Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
PDP Co-Director William J. Perry delivered a speech to the Center for National Policy on May 24, 2006, in Washington, DC, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill. Dr. Perry’s speech focused on Iran, North Korea, and the challenges of proliferation. Dr. Perry discussed the options available to the United States in order to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism stemming from the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
