Tag: Graham Allison

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    A towering scholar-turned-diplomat, public intellectual

    Harvard faculty examine legacy of Henry Kissinger

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    A photo from 1959 of Henry A. Kissinger, Professor of Government at Harvard University.
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    A tech warning: AI is coming fast and it’s going to be rough ride

    Former Google chairman Eric Schmidt details disruptions, dangers technology will bring to economy, national security, other aspects of American life.

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    Allison Graham and Eric Schmidt
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    60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear threat feels chillingly immediate

    Graham Allison looks at how Kennedy and Khrushchev stepped back from the point of no return and the challenges facing the West in preventing Putin from crossing it.

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    John Kennedy and Putin.
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    Learning from COVID’s ‘Chernobyl moment’

    Members of an independent panel charged with coming up with ways to prevent the next pandemic urged international action.

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    Covid test.
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    What would Dick do?

    A panel including Al Gore, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Roger Porter, and Harvey Fineberg, with Graham Allison moderating, discussed what Richard Neustadt would have thought of the Trump presidency on the 100th anniversary of the late Kennedy School professor’s birth.

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    Al Gore (l to r), former Harvard Provost Harvey Fineberg, and Roger Porter, current HKS Professor of Business and Government, share a laugh during a discussion on the presidency in the 21st century. J
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    U.S. and Russia, behind the curtains

    A high-level intelligence group gathered at Harvard Kennedy School to analyze current relations between the U.S. and Russia, and gauge future goals of each.

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    Douglas Lute (from left), Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Kevin Ryan, and Daniel Hoffman
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    Lessons of the last financial crisis

    The last global financial crisis was just beginning when Niall Ferguson published his seminal book “The Ascent of Money” in 2008. He came to the Harvard Kennedy School Wednesday to warn that history could repeat itself.

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    Niall Ferguson.
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    Assessing the Iran deal pullout

    Faculty and affiliates of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School weighed in on President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out the United States from the multi-lateral Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal.

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    President Trump at podium.
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    The troubling U.S.-China face-off

    In a new book, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Graham Allison looks at how the power struggle between Athens and Sparta in classical Greece offers important insights into the looming complexities as China’s meteoric rise threatens to displace the U.S. as the dominant world power.

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    The lessons on Russian intelligence

    Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Mike Rogers, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, discuss Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

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    Thoughts on JFK at 100

    Harvard Kennedy School pays tribute to the enduring ideals and principles of President John F. Kennedy on the anniversary of his 100th birthday

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    Ash Carter to head Belfer Center

    Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, has been named to head the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and lead a new initiative on technology and global affairs. He succeeds Graham Allison, who will continue to teach at the School.

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    How China and the U.S. might collide — or not

    Panelists in a Kennedy School forum assessed the threat of future conflict between the United States and China.

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    Thomas Schelling, Nobelist and game theory pioneer, 95

    Thomas C. Schelling, a major figure in shaping the modern Harvard Kennedy School and a 2005 Nobel Prize winner in economics, died at 95.

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    The budding U.S.-Russia ‘bromance’

    The incoming Trump administration could lead the United States to a fresh relationship with Russia, said analysts at a Belfer Center panel discussion.

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    Losing the war on jihadism

    Former top intelligence officials from the Central Intelligence Agency and Israel’s Mossad discussed threats from the Islamic State, issues involving Israel, and the future of the Iran nuclear deal.

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    A ‘new phase’ of global terrorism

    U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson spoke to students at Harvard Kennedy School about the complex efforts that go into national security, particularly in the wake of terrorist attacks.

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    Carter: Islamic State will be defeated

    U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter spoke about the ongoing war with Islamic State and touted the many public service opportunities in the military for students, even if they don’t envision a career on the battlefield.

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    Facing ‘the challenge of our generation’

    Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the array of foreign policy challenges facing the United States, speaking with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Graham Allison.

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    Whither Iran

    As negotiators worked beyond a deadline, experts at Harvard Kennedy School considered the possible outcomes of a deal, or no deal, with Iran over nuclear materials.

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    Forgotten Jewish fighters

    Pusey Library exhibit “Lives of the Great Patriotic War” is a multimedia glimpse at surviving Jewish veterans whose presence in the Red Army is a little-known story.

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    Chinese economists zero in on crises

    Economist Lawrence Summers and foreign policy expert Graham Allison talk about lessons learned from a Chinese research team’s comparison of the conditions around the Great Depression and the recession of 2008.

    7 minutes
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    A laser focus on freedom

    Jieun Baek, who is graduating from Harvard Kennedy School with a master’s in public policy, is dedicated to opening North Korea to the world.

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    The watchword is innovation

    Innovation, whether it’s large, small, solo, or institutional, is an increasingly important part of Harvard, a university working to maintain its clearly defined sense of self and at the same time evolve to meet future needs.

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    Cooperating in educating

    The Harvard Campaign will help support growing advancements in interdisciplinary collaboration and integrated knowledge across the University.

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    Volatile Syria

    Moderator Graham Allison went straight to the heart of the matter during an Institute of Politics forum on Syria at the Kennedy School, asking the four panelists for a yes or no vote on military force.

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    When Armageddon loomed

    A new website at the Harvard Kennedy School marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. In an interview, Belfer Center director Graham Allison outlines the lessons learned from the dangerous yet deft dance of diplomacy.

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    Obaid joins Belfer Center as visiting fellow

    Nawaf Obaid joins Belfer Center as visiting fellow

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    Kissinger looks back

    Henry Kissinger has spent more than half a century thinking about and shaping foreign policy. At Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, the former Secretary of State reflected on the “hobby that became my profession.”

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    Kissinger returns to Harvard

    Henry A. Kissinger, who served as National Security adviser and secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations after 15 years as a member of the Harvard faculty, will be the featured speaker on a panel discussion in Sanders Theatre on April 11.

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