FP and Security Policy

Nicholas Burns, Director of the Belfer Center's Future of Diplomacy Project, talks with Indian Diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Indian Ambassador to the United States 

Conversations in Diplomacy: S. Jaishankar — April 17, 2014

Eliot Higgins, known by his online pseudonym Brown Moses, talks to MA graduate Gus Constantinou about his open source intelligence methods that he used in analysing recent events like the 2013 attacks in Syria.
We also have a conversation between our Head of Department Professor Theo Farrell and Dr C Christine Fair of Georgetown University about her new book 'Fighting to Win: the Pakistani Army's Way of War' (Oxford University Press 2014).
Jayne Peake and our new media intern and MA student Charlie de Rivaz talk about next week's events.
Presented by Dr Peter Busch
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in these podcasts are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

Brown Moses on Open Source Intelligence / Dr Christine Fair on Pakistan's army

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Policy Amidst Regional Instability: A Conversation with Prince Turki Al Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Middle East Initiative Speaker Series
Malkin Penthouse
November 18, 2014, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

A public address by His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, former Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States.

Moderated by Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School.

About HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal:

Prince Turki was Director General of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), Saudi Arabia's main foreign intelligence service, from 1977 until 2001.  In 2002 he was appointed as the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a position he served until 2005, when he was appointed as Ambassador to the United States. He retired in February 2007.

A Founder and Trustee of the King Faisal Foundation, Prince Turki is also the Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies.  In addition, he is a Trustee of the Oxford Islamic Center at The University of Oxford and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University, as well as being a Commissioner at the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. Prince Turki received an honorary PhD in Law from the University of Ulster in 2010 and has been a visiting Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Prince Turki Al Faisal on Saudi Arabia's Foreign Policy

"Never Say Never Again” Revisited
Speaker: Dr Ariel Levite, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dr. Ariel Levite is a Nonresident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Earlier he has been the Principal Deputy Director General
(Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (2002-2007), a Visiting Fellow at CISAC, Stanford University (2000-2002), Deputy Israeli National Security Advisor
(Defense Policy) (1999-2000), and Head of the Bureau of International Security at the Israeli MOD. Dr. Levite has published extensively on issues of strategy, military
doctrine, deterrence, arms control, proliferation, and intelligence. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He has received the Dr. Jean Meyer Global
Citizenship Award from the IGL, Tufts University, and made into a Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur from French Republic.

The Iranian nuclear case provides an excellent opportunity to revisit (and refine) our understanding of nuclear hedging and reversal process from both a theoretical and policy relevant perspective. In his talk Ariel will discuss the emerging theory of hedging informed by the recent contribution to our understanding of the phenomenon made by Bowen, Moran, and Esfandiary's study of Iranian hedging, and will examine the JCPOA in light of its insights and policy precepts.

Hosted by the Centre for Science & Security Studies

Hedging, Latency, and the JCPOA

With the 2008 U.S.-India nuclear deal, India obtained a unique exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group ban on nuclear trade with states outside of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.&nbsp; Please join us for a view from New Delhi on India&rsquo;s nuclear priorities and challenges on January 24th from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. as the Proliferation Prevention Program welcomes Dr. (Read more at https://csis.org/events/indias-nuclear-challenges)

India's Nuclear Challenges

India's Nuclear Policies: One Year Later

Professor Nicholas Burns speaks with Ambassadors Daniel Feldman, Marc Grossman, and Richard Olson, all former U.S. Special Representatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan, about U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Conversations in Diplomacy: Special Representatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan — April 24, 2017

Nicholas Burns sits down with former Secretary of Commerce, and Future of Diplomacy Project Klein Fellow, Penny Pritzker for a conversation in diplomacy.

Conversations in Diplomacy

Conversations in Diplomacy: Penny Pritzker — October 25, 2017

Jacqueline Hazelton challenges the conventional wisdeom that states must make liberalizing reforms and win the population’s “hearts and minds” to defeat insurgencies.

See the interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68NHhpMf98

Read the article here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00283

The "Hearts and Minds" Fallacy — Jacqueline Hazelton on International Security Author Chats

As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? 

The Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation present Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns, in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael Szonyi.

Speaker:
Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School; Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Discussants:
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University

Odd Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Moderator:
Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Professor of Chinese History

This event was sponsored by Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

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