Spring 2016 Belfer Center Newsletter

The Spring 2016 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter features recent and upcoming Center activities, along with research and analysis of critical global issues by members of the Center community. This issue features the huge global impact of cheap oil, with comments by Leonardo Maugeri, Robert Stavins, Henry Lee, Meghan O’Sullivan, Calestous Juma, David Keith, and Khalid Alsweilem on its economic, environmental, and geo-political effects.

The Kennedy School was honored in December with a visit by Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, former director of the Belfer Center and long-time HKS professor. Secretary Carter discussed a range of topics at a JFK Jr. Forum moderated by Center Director Graham Allison.

We also highlight the work of Center nuclear experts in relation to the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, including the Project on Managing the Atom’s significant new report Nuclear Security: Continuous Improvement or Dangerous Decline. The Center’s increasing attention to cybersecurity is a focus as well, with articles announcing the appointment of Michael Sulmeyer, the new director of the Cyber Security Project, his take on cybersecurity challenges, and his plans to “create a conceptual arsenal of strategies to aid decision-makers as they confront future challenges of conflict in cyberspace.”

This issue also features “one of the most compelling stories of neighborhood restoration in U.S. urban history” with our article about the role of the Belfer Center and Harvard Kennedy School in the successful recovery of the Broadmoor neighborhood in post-Katrina New Orleans. With leadership from former Center senior fellow Doug Ahlers, the Broadmoor community-based recovery model has been successfully applied in other disaster sites around the world.

We also remember and celebrate Ambassador Stephen Bosworth. Bosworth, a senior fellow with the Center following his service in government and tenure as dean of Tufts’ Fletcher School of Government, died in January. Government officials, colleagues, students, and friends from around the world expressed condolences and deep respect for him as a kind and wise man and consummate diplomat.

Oil, Energy, and Climate

• Oil, Prices, and Global Impact
• Anadon on Re-orienting Innovation Systems (Belfer in Brief)
• Conference Participation Highlights Center’s Climate Change Focus
• Making Climate Change Personal

Improving Security: Nuclear and Cyber

• Secretary of Defense Carter Returns Home
• Belfer Experts Work to Strengthen Nuclear Security
• Sulmeyer Heads Center’s New Cyber Security Project
• Protecting the U.S. in Cyberspace
• Ukraine Power Grid Hacking: Could it Happen in the United States?

Middle East Challenges

• Rebel Recruitment
• Relations with Iran
• U.S. and Israel on Security Cooperation
• Exploring Social Contracts in the Arab World
• Harvard Coalition Responds to Syrian Displacement, Refugee Crisis
• Goldenziel on ISIS and Refugees (Belfer in Brief)

Featured Fellows and Scholars

• Anita Gohdes: Syria, Violence, and the Internet
• Amanda Rizkallah: The Significance of “Statelets” in Civil Wars
• Four International Experts Named Senior Fellows (Douglas Alexander, Kurt Campbell, Andrew Weber, Peter Westmacott)

Special Recognition

• Celebrating Stephen Bosworth: The People’s Diplomat, Our Friend and Mentor
• Newsmakers (Robert Blackwill, Ben Heineman, Tom Donilon, Tad Oelstrom, Behnam Taebi)
• Out of Katrina’s Devastation: A Model for Disaster Recovery (Doug Ahlers)

Additional Features

• Director's Note

• Origins of the Recanati-Kaplan Program for Intelligence Officers
• Hot Off the Presses
• International Security Journal Highlights
• “Office Hours” – Insightful and Personal New Series

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