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Evan Sankey's love of history brought him to the Belfer Center to work with Professor Graham Allison.

An excerpt from an interview with Fran Ulmer, Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative, explains what we might expect from the transition to Norwegian leadership, as well as possible paths forward for the Arctic Council and Arctic governance more broadly. The interview was conducted by Belfer Center Communications and Outreach Specialist Elizabeth Hanlon. 

Highlights from the Winter 2022/23 issue of the journal International Security.

On July 1, Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, will become Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs. She will take the reins from Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director of the Center since 2017.

With Russia's war against Ukraine grinding past the one-year mark, the Belfer Center's Russia Matters team has redoubled its efforts to analyze the drivers and consequences of the conflict. 

The Belfer Center congratulates graduating Harvard Kennedy School students and Belfer Young Leader student fellows and joins HKS in honoring several students for their excellent Policy Analysis Exercises (PAEs).

Several of the graduating Belfer Young Leader student fellows commented on their time at the Kennedy School and Belfer Center. 

In this Fall 2022 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter, our main feature focuses on Ash Carter and his legacy. Following Ash’s sudden death in October, tributes and remembrances poured in from current and former government officials and colleagues, students, and friends. Their many stories describe Ash’s impact on the country and on the people with whom he came in contact. Be sure to take a look at these moving remembrances. 

You will also see in this all-digital newsletter some of the breadth and depth of the Center’s output, from continuing research and insights into the war in Ukraine and related nuclear threats, to security possibilities of open source intelligence, a 2022 review of cyber power in 30 countries, and new ideas to lessen climate change impacts in the Arctic and around the world. And there’s much more about the critical work the Center is doing in pursuit of a more secure and peaceful world.

A Belfer Center conference with the Seoul-based East Asia Institute (EAI) focused on U.S. priorities concerning the region’s security concerns amid other pressing global security challenges. Participants discussed impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on the region and how to bolster U.S.-ROK cooperation on regional nuclear nonproliferation governance in light of the growing nuclear arsenals in China and North Korea.

The Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom, Intelligence Project, and Applied History Project organized a day-long conference in October to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis and to discuss what we’ve learned from the CMC. Managing the Atom’s Mariana Budjeryn discusses the relevance of those lessons for today’s conflict in Ukraine.

The Environment and Natural Resources Program’s Future of Hydrogen project published several papers this year investigating renewable hydrogen production, use, and trade between countries. In the following interview, Senior Fellow Nicola De Blasio and Research Fellow Laima Eicke share their insights on green hydrogen's growing economic and political momentum.