The Belfer Center is celebrating a half-century of excellence in researching the world’s toughest challenges and shaping policy responses. And we're just getting started. Our mission is as relevant today as it was at any other time in our history.
About us
Who We Are: The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security and diplomacy, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy. From terrorism and nuclear weapons to cybersecurity, climate change, energy, and diplomacy, the Belfer Center provides research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world. What We Do: The Center has a dual mission: (1) to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, environmental policy, and international affairs intersect; and (2) to prepare future generations of leaders for these arenas. How We Do It: The heart of the Belfer Center is its resident research community of more than 150 scholars, who through publications and policy discussions, workshops, seminars, and conferences, promote innovative solutions to significant international challenges. Stay Connected: - Receive our latest updates: https://belfercenter.org/subscribe - Watch us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/BelferCenter - See us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/belfercenter
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https://belfercenter.org
External link for Harvard's Belfer Center
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- Think Tanks
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, MA
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- Educational
- Founded
- 1973
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- international affairs, climate change, policy, science, defense, technology, international security, cybersecurity, environment, innovation, natural resources, diplomacy, international relations, energy, nuclear warfare, nuclear terrorism, globalization, and geopolitics
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79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, US
Employees at Harvard's Belfer Center
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John Park
Director, Korea Project, Harvard’s Belfer Center
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Woodrow Rosenbaum
Helping purposeful risk-takers achieve their biggest goals.
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Brittany Janis, CFRE
Associate Director, Environment & Natural Resources and Science Technology & Public Policy at Harvard's Belfer Center | Leadership in Team Building…
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Mahmoud Khweis
CEO @ JIINNOVATE Jerusalem Innovation Health-Tech Center
Updates
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Our fellowship applications for the 2025-26 academic year open on October 1. Supporting both academic and professional tracks, our fellowships are open to doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D. recipients of equivalent degrees, and practitioners from the public and private sectors. The Belfer Center will offer the following opportunities: 👉Arctic Initiative Fellowship 👉Energy, Climate, and Technology Policy Fellowship 👉Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy 👉Geopolitics of Energy Fellowship 👉International Security Program Fellowship 👉Project on Managing the Atom Fellowship 👉Middle East Initiative Fellowship 👉Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship 👉Technology and Geopolitics Fellowship Learn more on our website: https://lnkd.in/dWhZKSK
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Welcome all students! This week, Orientation kicked off at Harvard Kennedy School and we at the Belfer Center opened our doors to all new and returning students for Fall Semester. Students had the opportunity to learn more about our research projects and initiatives, at the crucial nexus between science and international affairs. Attend our events, explore our research, and keep in touch through our website, belfercenter.org.
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"Netanyahu is pursuing a military solution that is a brutally tragic fool's errand." In an extensive interview with Times Radio, Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Harvard's Middle East Initiative Senior Fellow Edward Djerejian spoke about the Israeli Prime Minister's political ambitions and military strategy; the likelihood of a ceasefire deal; and the United States' role in applying pressure in the context of regional conflict - including the JCPOA. Watch here.
Netanyahu is 'unhinged' in his attempt to cling onto power
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Do autocrats need a foreign enemy? Conventional thinking suggests that autocrats need enemies and have incentives to create them, but Russia's Vladimir Putin wins as much popular support when he is prudent and cooperative as when he is hostile and aggressive. In the new Summer 2024 issue of International Security: Quarterly Journal, Henry E. Hale, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University and Adam Lenton (PhD), Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University say these findings add to evidence that Russia’s full-scale 2022 invasion of Ukraine was not a war of domestic political necessity. Read more here.
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Hacking is more than just a term for rogue programmers breaking into computer systems. In a new episode of Behind the Book, Bruce Schneier explains how hacking goes well beyond the digital realm. His latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, explores the ways that society is manipulated by those seeking and exploiting loopholes in our political, social, and economic systems. Watch and read more here: https://lnkd.in/ei8qT4YM
How the powerful hack the system
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"The legacy of the 1984 Arctic Research and Policy Act is that the U.S. can pursue its goals in the Arctic, as varied as they may be, with a good and growing basis of knowledge and understanding." Fran Ulmer and Mead Treadwell write in Anchorage Daily News.
The Arctic Research and Policy Act was adopted by Congress 40 years ago. This anniversary was celebrated in Alaska this week and will be celebrated in Washington DC in September. Here is an article describing its significance, co-authored by two former Chairs of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Mead Treadwell and Fran Ulmer https://lnkd.in/dGrbcEur
OPINION: 40 years of innovation in Arctic research
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Incredibly excited Africa Insights publication is out! More amazing work from Nils Olsen compiling and editing this analysis. Pieces from Armughan Syed, Femi Olamijulo, Enitan Okediji, Ruvimbo Mushavi, Tessa Varvares, and more - plus Nils himself! Our previous pieces on Middle Powers and Huthi aggression also featured. This compilation highlights the incredible work of the last year of the Africa Futures Project, including event highlights with Judd Devermont and Chidi Blyden. As always, amazing leadership from Natalie Colbert and Zoe Marks enabled this, as well as support from Harvard's Belfer Center https://lnkd.in/drur_Fkd
Africa Insights: Dialogue, Analysis, and Research on Current African Policy Issues
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"Holding an Executive liable for the actions of its company does feel like an escalation, we don't see that very often - my expectation is that the French felt they had no other option to get Telegram to pay attention." Belfer Center Fellow Doug Calidas joined Andrew Craft on LiveNOW from Fox to discuss the latest on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov being released from French custody, after he was arrested for allegedly allowing criminal activity on the messaging app.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov freed from French custody
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Today, Thursday 29 August, marks 75 years since the Soviet Union tested their first nuclear weapon. Ongoing warfare with Ukraine raises our current conundrum: what do we do if Russia does decide to go nuclear. "The United States and its allies need to think several steps ahead in considering how they would respond to Russian nuclear use and what they should say to Russia now to convince it not to consider going down the nuclear road," says Professor Matthew Bunn in The National Interest. Read the full piece below, and explore the Belfer Center's latest analysis on the War in Ukraine here: https://lnkd.in/ez5CsnM6
Things Get Ugly if Russia Pulls the Nuclear Trigger in Ukraine
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