2017

HKS

Three HKS centers ranked among world's best university-affiliated research centers

February 3, 2017

by Doug Gavel

Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for International Development (CID) are ranked atop the best university-affiliated research centers in the world.

The rankings appear in the latest edition of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, produced annually for the past decade by James McGann, director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute. The goal of the Index, he said, “is to increase the profile and performance of think tanks and raise the public awareness of the important role think tanks play in governments and civil societies around the globe.”... Read more about Three HKS centers ranked among world's best university-affiliated research centers

2017 Feb 14

POSTPONED: 7th Thailand@Harvard Lecture: Thailand 4.0: The Rise of a Stagnant Nation (Moving Beyond Red, Yellow and Green)

4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

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2017 Apr 20

Comparative Democracy Seminar: Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes

4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge

About the SpeakerTucker

Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics and affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Data Science at New York University, the Director of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, a co-Director of the NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory, and a co-author of the award winning Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post. He serves on the Editorial Board of multiple academic journals as well the Advisory Board of the American National Election Study and was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science. Professor Tucker specializes in the study of mass political behavior, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public opinion formation, mass protest, and the relationship between social media and political participation. He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-99 (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and the co-author of the forthcoming Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes (Princeton University Press, 2017).

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2017 Apr 13

SOLD OUT - Documentary Screening: The Vietnam War

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums || 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, (Tickets are Required)

At this time, no more tickets are available. 

Join us for a screening and conversation with filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick as they preview their most recent film, The Vietnam War, a new 10-part, 18-hour documentary film series airing in September 2017 on PBS stations nationwide. The screening will be followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with Burns, Novick, Sarah Botstein, Producer, and Thomas Vallely, the senior advisor for Mainland Southeast Asia and the former director of the Vietnam Program at the Ash Center. Ash Center Director and...

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2017 Apr 03

Book talk with Melissa Williams, Co-Editor of "East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy: Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide"

4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge

Join us for a discussion with Melissa Williams, Professor of Political Science, and founding Director of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto, Senior Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Editor of “East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy: Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide", and ...

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Statement on the Death of U Ko Ni

January 30, 2017

 

The Habibie Center, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and Kemitraan: The Partnership for Governance Reform are deeply saddened by the news of U Ko Ni's assasination at Yangon International Airport after having just returned from a trip to Indonesia.
 
Ko Ni, a legal consultant for the National League for Democracy, was part of a Myanmar delegation that took part in a three-day discussion on ‘Democratic Transition, Military Reform and Communal Conflict: What can Myanmar Learn from Indonesia’s Communal...
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