INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
July 20, 2007
How to Squeeze Jihadi Culture Out of Pakistan
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Christian Science Monitor
By Vali Nasr
Putting faith in President Musharraf hasn't worked. But here's what the US can do.
July 18, 2007
"Food Security, Agriculture, and Economic Growth: Opportunities for Cooperation between the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa"
Testimony
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Testimony of Calestous Juma before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, Hearing on Food Security in Africa: The Impact of Agricultural Development
July 6, 2007
"Build Africa's Economic Foundations First"
Op-Ed, Business Daily, (Nairobi)
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
"African presidents have now returned home from Accra, Ghana, after discussing a critical issue for the future of Africa: the creation of a United States of Africa at the urging of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi....Col Gaddafi has the right vision, but can correct his faulty strategy by helping to support the effective functioning of regional integration bodies, starting with northern and western Africa."
July 2007
"A Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage"
Event Report
By Lifeng Zhao, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2006-2008
Report on a workshop jointly organized by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
July 2007
"Power to the People"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, World Conservation, issue 2, volume 37
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Innovation can help secure the universal access to modern energy and sustainability that Africa so sorely needs, says Calestous Juma.
June 14, 2007
"Japan's Valued Role in Promoting Public Goods"
Op-Ed, Asahi Shimbun
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
This commentary comprises excerpts from a keynote speech Joseph S. Nye delivered May 26 in Tokyo at an Asahi Shimbun symposium on its 21 "Proposals for Japan's New Strategies" that ran in May 3 editions of The Asahi Shimbun and on May 23 in IHT/Asahi.
June 11, 2007
China: Good or Evil in Africa?
Policy Brief
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
China is transforming Africa, for good and ill. The United States and other traditional trading and aid partners of Africa need to pay closer attention than they are, and with Africans craft bold new policies that welcome Chinese investment and trade but condemn the taking of African jobs and the destruction of African industries. Click here to read the full text, which discusses China’s emerging controversial role in Africa as investor, trader, buyer, and aid donor.
June 5, 2007
Implications of a Future Global Biofuels Market for Economic Development and International Trade
Report
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP, Robert Lawrence, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Gloria Visconti
Summary report from a joint ENRP/Sustainablity Science Program workshop convening experts from academia, international institutions, government, and the private sector to explore possible implications of emerging global biofuels markets for economic development and international trade.
Spring 2007
"Belfer in Brief"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
A brief synopsis of events, happenings, and news at the Belfer Center.
Associated Press
April 20, 2007
"Nigeria Neglect Carries Cost"
Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
By neglecting Nigeria, the Bush administration has missed repeated opportunities to strengthen democracy in Africa's most populous, most fractured and most important country.
