FP and Security Policy

Politics of Nuclear Weapons

Events

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

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

Débat du 12/03/2015

Facing North Korea: the evolution of South Korean defense policy since 2010
Kim Taehyo, SungKyunKwan University, Seoul, former security adviser to President Lee Myun-bak
 
The political and security challenges of a nuclear North Korea for Souths Korea's defense policy
Ho Ryung Lee, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses
 
North Korean nuclear challenges and the impact on US deterrence and assurance
Mark Fitzpatrick, IISS, London

Présidence et discutante : Guibourg Delamotte, INALCO/Sciences Po-CERI
 
Responsable scientifique : Guibourg Delamotte (INALCO/Sciences Po-CERI)

Nuclear North Korea: Challenges to us Deterrence and Impact on South Korea's Defense 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

The Future of Alliances and Extended Nuclear Deterrence

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

Throughout history, conflict and war have created conditions in which enslavement thrives. In turn, slavery has featured centrally in many conflicts as both a strategic goal and a means of waging war.

Professor Kevin Bales will present the findings to date of a major research project at the Rights Lab (University of Nottingham) exploring the links between slavery and war. This project seeks to map the connections between slavery and conflict, determining how incidences and patterns of enslavement vary depending on the forms of conflict, levels of intensity and duration, and the nature of the combatants and their objectives.

This event was hosted by the Centre for Strand Strategy https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/kcl-centre-for-grand-strategy

Event: Strategic and Tactical Slavery in War

King's College London event recording from 22 January 2020 entitled: 'Applying Insights from the UK-Ireland split in 1921 to Post-Brexit UK-EU Relations.' Panellists included Dr. Bill Kissane (LSE), Prof. Mary Daly (Univ. College Dublin) and Brendan Simms (Univ. of Cambridge).

Event: Applying Insights from the UK-Ireland Split in 1921 to Post - Brexit UK-EU Relations

What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a way that combines reconciliation with accountability? These are typical questions within the field of transitional justice, but each of them is complex and contested and discussed in a wide range of disciplines.  Michael Newman draws on his new book, Transitional Justice: Contending with the Past, to explore some of the major debates and themes.

Michael Newman is Emeritus Professor at London Metropolitan University, He has been teaching ‘War, Peace and World Order’, at NYU London since 2011. This talk is part of the War Crimes Spring Term Seminar Series at King's College London.

Event: Michael Newman - Transitional Justice: Contending with the Past

In this latest event recording, Professor Brendan Simms of the University of Cambridge discusses his new biography of Adolf Hitler,  entitled Hitler: A Global Biography. He argues that contrary to past accounts, Hitler was driven by a desire to confront the United States and capitalism more broadly.

Event: Brendan Simms - Hitler: A  Global Biography

William Fenrick, former military lawyer and legal adviser for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) reflects on his experience at varying stages of his career within the field of international criminal justice. 

This event took place at the Department of War Studies, King's College London and was entitled: 'Putting Law into War: Reflections on the Birth of International Criminal Justice at the ICTY.

Event: Reflections on the Birth of International Criminal Justice at the ICTY

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