CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
May 2012
"Perceptions and Narratives of Security: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iran-Iraq War"
Discussion Paper
By Annie Tracy Samuel, Research Fellow, International Security Program
This paper explores the importance of the Iran-Iraq War for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) by analyzing how the Guards have used the war to present their positions on Iran's national security.
Summer 2012
Fellows Enrich Belfer Center and Harvard Kennedy School with Vital Research, Dialogue
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
Several times each week, the Belfer Center library is filled with students, faculty, and fellows eager to listen, challenge, and exchange information and ideas triggered by the day’s presentation. Many of these talks are by one of the Center’s more than 70 research and senior fellows. This article features a few of the talented women and men who are current and former faculty, fellows, staff and associates of the Belfer Center whose work is making significant contributions in public and private sectors around the world.
Summer 2012
Insight and Analysis: Iran
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
A small sampling of Belfer Center perspectives on Iran and the country's nuclear program.
Summer 2012
Round Up of Middle East Initiative Spring Events
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
A year after the sparks of revolution began in the Arab World, the Middle East Initiative (MEI) focused its spring events on the implications of the region’s tumultuous transition.
AP Photo
May 9, 2012
"China's Soft Power Deficit"
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"The 2008 Olympics was a success abroad, but shortly afterward China's domestic crackdown on human rights activists undercut its soft-power gains. The Shanghai Expo was also a great success, but it was followed by the jailing of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo. His empty chair at the Oslo ceremony was a powerful symbol. And for all the efforts to turn Xinhua and China Central Television into competitors for CNN and the BBC, there is little international audience for brittle propaganda."
AP Photo
May 7, 2012
"A Tragedy or Merely Tragic?"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"It is a testament to the human rights community that its relevance in global affairs may demand a new vernacular. Major atrocities, and ethnic genocide, are different in scope and magnitude from the plight of a single man. Those familiar slogans — the whole world is watching — are at risk of overuse, and therefore irrelevance, when applied to all things constituting a tragedy and the merely tragic. The Chen case is complicated, but it isn't Bosnia."
Sharon Wilke
May 2, 2012
Conversations in Diplomacy: Justice Richard Goldstone
Media Feature
By Charles Hobbs and Cathryn Clüver, Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project
In this interview with the Future of Diplomacy Project's Conversations in Diplomacy podcast series, Justice Richard Goldstone discusses the "crucial" role of diplomacy in international criminal justice.
AP Photo
April 30, 2012
"Iran, Netanyahu and the Holocaust"
Op-Ed, Veterans Today
By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam and Abbas Maleki, Senior Associate, International Security Program
"There are Stars of David publicly displayed in Tehran of course, for instance on the walls and signs of the Beheshtieh Jewish cemetery where dozens of holocaust victims are buried. In Tehran today there are 18 synagogues, several kosher butchers, Jewish schools and a Jewish hospital. Comparable conditions exist in other cities with a sizeable Jewish community. The situation for all minorities in Iran is far from perfect, but the Islamic Republic guarantees the political representation of the Jewish community in the Iranian parliament, a political right that is codified in the Iranian constitution."
AP Photo
April 29, 2012
"A Tale of Three Capitals"
Op-Ed, The Jerusalem Post
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"In Israel, although a range of views exists regarding the means of dealing with the nuclear threat, the approach is very narrowly focused; just prevent, or at least significantly delay, an Iranian bomb, even at the expense of other issues in which Israel has vital interests, such as Iran's massive arming of Hezbollah."
AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File
April 16, 2012
John Park on North Korea After Kim Jong-il
In the News
By John S. Park, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
John Park, research fellow with the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, is interviewed by CNN, NPR, and other media about the regional and global impact of the death of North Korea's Kim Jong-il.
