Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join David Dapice, Senior Economist, Vietnam and Myanmar Program along with Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor for Mainland Southeast Asia as they discuss the growing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and whether a path forward exists to stem the growing conflict there. Ash Center Director Tony Saich will moderate. This discussion is part of the Ash Center Community Speakers Series. Lunch will be served.
Join Nick Burns, the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations; Michael Szonyi, Professor of Chinese History and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Director; Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus; Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations; and Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy for a discussion on U.S. foreign policy, President Trump, and China. Panelists will discuss President Trump's recent trip to Asia and its likely impact on U.S. policy in the region.... Read more about U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China
Room 226/Ash Center Conference Room, Suite 200 North, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
In this seminar, Dr. Meir Elran, director of the Homeland Security Program at the Institute of National Security Studies in Israel and a retired Brigadier General in the Israel Defense Forces, will make the case that Israel and other countries should shift from a strategy of resistance to terrorism (...
Join us and the members of the HKS Innovation Field Lab teaching team for a discussion about local civic innovation and how HKS students can get involved. Speakers will include:
Dr. Jorrit de Jong, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy, Faculty Director of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Academic Director of the Innovations in Government Program at the Ash Center
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
Join Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University for a discussion on whether there is an emerging crisis of liberal democracy. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.
By some counts, we are now in the twelfth years of a global recession of freedom and democracy. For most of this period, this political recession has been mild and even debatable as to its net effect on democracy. However, with the failure of...
Mayor Peter Buttigieg, South Bend, IN Mayor Sly James, Kansas City, MO Mayor Martin Walsh, Boston, MA Mayor Sharon Weston Broome, Baton Rouge, LA Jorrit de Jong (Moderator) Faculty Director of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Ash Center Conference Room, HKS, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North, Room 226
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on innovations in the fight against human trafficking. The study group, which will meet five times this semester, is convened and moderated by Herman Bolhaar, Former Attorney-General of The Netherlands and Senior Fellow at the Ash Center.
Our fifth and final study group will feature Dr. Christina Bain, Director Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Babson College.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
The Ash Center invites you to a discussion with David Huang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University for a discussion to better understand how the U.S. has influenced Xi Jinping's policy toward Taiwan. This talk will be moderated by Ash Center Director Tony Saich. Lunch will be provided.... Read more about Accommodating America?: Understanding U.S. Influence in Xi's Policy Toward Taiwan
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join us for a lunch conversation with Malcolm McPherson, Economist and Senior Research Associate with the Vietnam Program at the Ash Center. McPherson's presentation is entitled Environment, Agriculture, and Livelihoods: Challenges and Opportunities in the Lower Mekong Basin. Ash Center Director Tony Saich will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join Isabela Mares, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University for a talk on Democratization after Democratization: The Adoption of Reforms Limiting Electoral Fraud in 19th Century Europe as part of the Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Initiative. This discussion will be moderated by Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at HKS.
