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Agricultural Innovation in Africa

August 2007

Freedom to Innovate: Biotechnology in Africa's Development

Report

By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa and Ismail Serageldin

"This report is about biotechnology and the role it can play for development in Africa. The report suggests specific and practical measures to advance development, quality of life and environmental sustainability using biotechnology."

Energy Technology Innovation Policy

Summer 2009

"Newsmakers"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter

By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications

Belfer Center Newsmakers.

Winter 2007-08

Belfer Center Newsletter Winter 2007-08

Newsletter

By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications

The Winter 2007-08 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter features recent and upcoming research, activities, and analysis by Center faculty, fellows, and staff on critical global issues. Belfer Center experts discuss the U.S.-China relationship and the role of religion in international affairs as well as other critical national and international issues.

September 21, 2007

"U.S., Iran Need to Build Confidence"

Op-Ed, San Francisco Chronicle

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program and Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

"...the stage is set for a thaw in U.S.-Iran relations. With sufficient political will on both sides, Washington and Tehran can achieve this by adopting concrete confidence-building measures and by imposing a mutually agreed-upon moratorium on demonizing each other."

July 21, 2006

Why Not Involve Iran in Effort To Establish Order in Mideast?

Op-Ed, Forward

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program

The world faces different crises all the time, and each generation feels its crises to be the biggest.

June 9, 2004

KSG Honors Belfer Faculty for Teaching, Women?s Advancement

Press Release

October, 2002

The Role of Government In Technology Innovation: Insights for Government Policy in the Energy Sector

Working Paper

September 1, 1999

BCSIA Annual Report, 1998-1999: Science Technology & Public Policy Program

Annual Report Chapter

Environment and Natural Resources

Winter 2007-08

Belfer Center Newsletter Winter 2007-08

Newsletter

By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications

June 25, 2003

BCSIA Senior Research Fellow Ian Bowles Selected to Lead MassINC

Press Release

Targeting Civilians in War

Targeting Civilians in War

Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this vitally important book on a topic of acute concern for anyone interested in military strategy, international security, or human rights, Alexander B. Downes reminds readers that democratic and authoritarian governments alike will sometimes deliberately kill large numbers of civilians as a matter of military strategy. What leads governments to make such a choice?

International Security

The Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available. It includes articles by Matthew Fuhrmann, Elizabeth Stanley, Daniel Lake, Christopher Layne, and more.

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Intrastate Conflict Program

The Program on Intrastate Conflict analyzes the causes of ethnic, religious, and other intercommunal conflict, and seeks to identify practical ways to prevent and limit such conflict.

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International Security Article

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles, even when used against similar opponents and in the face of repression. Nonviolent campaigns are more likely to win legitimacy, attract widespread domestic and international support, neutralize the opponent's security forces, and compel loyalty shifts among erstwhile opponent supporters than are armed campaigns, which enjoin the active support of a relatively small number of people, offer the opponent a justification for violent counterattacks, and are less likely to prompt loyalty shifts and defections. An original, aggregate data set of all known major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006 is used to test these claims. These dynamics are further explored in case studies of resistance campaigns in Southeast Asia that have featured periods of both violent and nonviolent resistance.

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Featured Book

Building a New Afghanistan

Named an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2007" by Choice magazine.