Tag: Nicholas Burns

  • Nation & World

    Three notable immigrants who served their adoptive land

    Madeleine Albright, Dina Powell McCormick, and Ezinne Uzo-Okoro discuss the role of foreign-born Americans.

    6 minutes
    Madeleine Albright, Dina Powell McCormick, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, and Nicholas Burns on Zoom.
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    Clinton reflects on foreign policy triumphs and challenges

    Former President Bill Clinton gave the inaugural Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy in honor of the late U.S. ambassador, looking back on his international actions that still reverberate in U.S. foreign relations today.

    7 minutes
    Bill Clinton and Nick Burns on Zoom.
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    After a hard election, the real work begins

    Harvard University scholars, analysts, and affiliates take a look at what the election tells us about the prospects for greater unity and progress, and offer suggestions and predictions about where the new administration will, and should, go.

    26 minutes
    Kamala Harris, Harris, President-elect Joe Biden.
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    Cryptocurrency and national insecurity

    In a simulation, North Korea has just tested a missile that will soon be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the continental U.S. The move took Washington by surprise as the project was likely funded via a new Chinese digital currency.

    5 minutes
    People sitting around a conference table.
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    Tillerson’s exit interview

    Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered his take on global leaders and hotspots, from Iran and Saudi Arabia to North Korea and Syria and discussed diplomacy negotiation strategies during a closed-door talk for the American Secretaries of State project at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday.

    8 minutes
    Tillerson panel
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    A spirited defense of NATO as bulwark

    As NATO approaches its 70th anniversary, a new report from Harvard Kennedy School affiliates says the stalwart military alliance is in “crisis,” facing challenges from outside and within like never before.

    6 minutes
    President Trump making a face
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    A ‘Prisoner’ story

    Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, a 2017 Harvard Nieman Fellow, and his Iranian wife, journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a fall 2016 Shorenstein Fellow, talk about their experiences as prisoners of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

    5 minutes
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    A troubled, but perhaps stronger, Europe

    A panel of foreign policy analysts assesses the deeply strained relationship between the U.S. and Europe and consider what the future holds.

    7 minutes
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    Harvard ramps up focus on Europe

    A new academic program at the Kennedy School trains resources on an old and sometimes forgotten friend to the United States: Europe.

    6 minutes
    Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, and Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit.
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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.

    15 minutes
    President Trump at podium.
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    Goodbye James Bond, hello big data

    A former chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service says technology and China’s rise are among the greatest national-security challenges facing the West.

    5 minutes
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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

    5 minutes
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    A day of Hillary at Harvard

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Harvard Friday for several private sessions with students and faculty to discuss some of the challenges she faced as the nation’s top foreign policy representative from 2009-13.

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    With attacks, ISIS now a global worry

    During a pair of interviews, Harvard Kennedy School analysts weigh in on the deadly and shocking terrorist attacks believed orchestrated by the Islamic State in Paris and Beirut.

    22 minutes
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    An inside view from Powell, complete with regrets

    Retired four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell expanded on the “intensely human experience” of high-level negotiations in a conversation at HLS.

    6 minutes
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    Straight dealing

    As Congress prepares to vote on a deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program, Harvard Kennedy School experts consider its merits and shortcomings and look to what’s next.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Albright, on negotiating

    The value of a clear understanding of your country’s objectives and the power of personal relationships were among the insights former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shared with a Harvard audience.

    4 minutes
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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.

    4 minutes
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    Breaking down the Middle East

    Harvard experts assess the rolling waves of violence and political upheaval across much of the Middle East and North Africa.

    11 minutes
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    Cruel summer

    Faculty from HLS and HKS examined recent upheaval in the Middle East as part of a new Harvard Hillel series on politics and public policy.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    3 minutes
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    The Syria saga, explained

    The Kennedy School’s Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. diplomat, discusses the crisis in Syria and where it is likely to lead.

    18 minutes
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    Kuwait Foundation awards $8.1M gift

    The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) has given $8.1 million to Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) to support the continuation of the Kuwait Program at HKS’s Middle East Initiative.

    3 minutes
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    Fostering global understanding

    A panel of scholars made up of the directors of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centers met to discuss how to promote better understanding between the Islamic world and the West.

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