Name: Beyond Emboldenment — Mark Bell on International Security Author Chats by Belfer Center in International Security Journal Author Chats
Duration: 16 min 15 s
Description: Mark Bell discusses his award winning article "Beyond Emboldenment: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons on State Foreign Policy." The article won the 2016 Weitsman Graduate Student Paper Award which is given by International Studies Association.

International Security Journal Author Chats

The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.

“Why’s/Wise 1” Amiri Baraka

As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.

Harvard Vocarium Recording (1951)

"Gerontion" T. S. Eliot

"A Song for Simeon" T. S. Eliot

"Triumphal March" T. S. Eliot

"Difficulties of a Statesman" T. S. Eliot

"Journey of the Magi" T. S. Eliot

"The Hollow Men" T. S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T. S. Eliot

Mark Bell discusses his award winning article "Beyond Emboldenment: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons on State Foreign Policy." The article won the 2016 Weitsman Graduate Student Paper Award which is given by International Studies Association.

Beyond Emboldenment — Mark Bell on International Security Author Chats

You can read the full article in the Fall 2017 issue of International Security here: http://hvrd.me/utFs30hx2Bl

Watch highlights from this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3pISNrPAaIg

Nuclear Energy Programs and Proliferation — Nick Miller on IS Author Chats

Michael Beckley explains how China’s maritime neighbors can prevent China from dominating East Asia militarily.

Watch highlights from this interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91z49gzRBhc&list=PLp1QSxtgPnf6990FIGczVUXaQd2eDyQLC

Read the article here: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/emerging-military-balance-east-asia-how-chinas-neighbors-can-check-chinese-naval

The Emerging Military Balance in East Asia — Michael Beckley on IS Author Chats

Patrick Porter explains why the United States continues to pursue a grand strategy of primacy.

Watch highlights from this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omkkkD-p5a8

Read the article: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00311

Why America’s Grand Strategy Has Not Changed — Patrick Porter on IS Author Chats

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3idblwg

Michael Beckley explains how power can be measured more accurately by calculating a country’s net resources.

Read the article: https://www.belfercenter.org/index.php/publication/power-nations-measuring-what-matters

Watch highlights from this interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip-i_m8aqEQ&index=2&list=PLp1QSxtgPnf6990FIGczVUXaQd2eDyQLC&t=0s

The Power of Nations: Measuring What Matters — Michael Beckley on IS Author Chats

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3icMPM4

Reid B.C. Pauly explains how declassified records of wargames played by U.S. policymakers can reveal why nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945.

Watch highlights from this interview: https://youtu.be/4tczAmmxjzA

Read the article: https://www.belfercenter.org/index.php/publication/would-us-leaders-push-button-wargames-and-sources-nuclear-restraint

Wargames and the Sources of Nuclear Restraint – Reid B.C. Pauly on IS Author Chats

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Beyond Emboldenment — Mark Bell on International Security Author Chats

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