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...concern about her ability to garner the support of the Pakistani people if she cannot travel freely due to security concerns. “This could lead to a civil war situation if terrorists can go out and attack political parties,” said Research Fellow at the Belfer Center Hassan Abbas, who served on both Musharraf and Bhutto’s administrations. Abbas said that Bhutto, unlike the increasingly unpopular Musharraf, could initiate dialogue and reconciliation to address the rising problem of terrorism and Islamic radicalism. He added that Musharraf focused more on military solutions instead of diplomacy...
...they do...I would expect that they will try to use them for influence rather than to destroy,” he added. Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison ’62, who is also a former KSG dean and the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, took a class with Schelling as an undergraduate while at Harvard. He called Schelling’s presentation “brilliant and provocative.” Audience member Fiona S. Cunningham ’09 said she enjoyed the lecture and that Schelling...
...Trade Representative from February 2001 to February 2005. He resigned from the former post in order to become a managing director at the investment bank Goldman Sachs, where he headed the firm’s international advisers. Prior to this, Zoellick was a research scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the KSG between 1999 and 2001. He had received both his J.D. from HLS and Masters in Public Policy from the KSG in 1981. “He is very much a problem solver—that is his central orientation, and I think...
...little further down JFK Street, the former academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt has published a paper with a colleague at the University of Chicago that claims that there is an all-powerful Jewish lobby in the United States that sustains support for an immoral state of Israel. While the bias and shoddiness of the paper’s research have already been well documented, the actual message of the paper is even more troublesome...
...Isaacson said of Einstein’s theories. Once he overcame the label by proving his theories were sound, Isaacson explained, Einstein received the kind of attention that “visiting rock stars would be thrilled with.” During the talk, which was sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Isaacson opened the floor to Baird Research Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, a Nobel laureate in chemistry. Herschbach called upon the students in the audience to emulate the creative aptitude exhibited by Einstein. “Graduate students, undergraduate students, arise...