For Americans who remember Nov. 22, 1963, there is an understandable temptation to dwell on the nearly unbearable tragedy of that day. I…
From the rise of China to the wave of instability still sweeping across the Arab World, and from the crisis in the Euro-zone to the…
Seemingly everywhere he turns these days, President Obama is facing criticism of his foreign policy leadership. And the critics aren’t the…
The justice cascade refers to a new global trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for past human rights violations…
Professor Burns discusses the high-stakes diplomatic talks in Geneva between Iran and the United States, and the diplomatic strategies at…
The energy sector is a major user of fresh water resources in China. We investigate the life cycle water withdrawals, consumptive water use…
The federal government shutdown has done serious harm to the public and threatens to create even more havoc as it veers toward a once…
In 2011, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for U.S. and Canadian…
Since 1978, when China launched its “opening up” reform, a range of large-scale national science and technology programs have been…
International organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have been
supporting reform initiatives in developing…