Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center's mission is to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, and international affairs intersect.
BCSIA's leadership begins with the recognition of science and technology as driving forces transforming international affairs. The Center integrates insights of social and natural scientists, technologists, and practitioners with experience in government, diplomacy, the military, and business to address these challenges.
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Policy Briefs
Title: Nonfatal Casualties and the Changing Costs of War
Authors: Tanisha M. Fazal
Date: November 2014Title: A Pre-Lima Scorecard for Evaluating which Countries are Doing Their Fair Share in Pledged Carbon Cuts
Authors: Valentina Bosetti, Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel
Date: November 2014Title: Possible Frameworks for Verification of a WMD/DVs Free Zone in the Middle East - The Nuclear Dimension
Authors: Olli Heinonen
Date: August 2014Title: Watch this Space: 'Collective Self-defense,' Constitutional Reinterpretation, and Japan's Security Policy
Authors: Adam P. Liff
Date: June 2014Title: Time to Worry about China's Military Rise
Authors: Evan Braden Montgomery
Date: June 2014Title: Why China Needs New Institutions to Cope with Looming Water Scarcity
Authors: Scott Moore
Date: March 2014Title: The Shape of the Cyber Danger
Authors: Lucas Kello
Date: March 2014Title: Better Threat Assessments Needed on Dual-Use Science
Authors: Kathleen M. Vogel
Date: February 2014Title: Making Sense of Cyberwar
Authors: Erik Gartzke
Date: January 2014Title: The Korean Dispute over the Northern Limit Line: Economics, International Law, and Security
Authors: Terence Roehrig
Date: December 2013Title: NATO in Afghanistan: Turning Retreat into Victory
Authors: Henrik Larsen
Date: December 2013Title: Disarming Syria: The Chemical Weapons Challenge
Authors: Trevor Findlay
Date: November 2013Title: The Crucial Role of Policy Surveillance in International Climate Policy
Authors: Joseph E. Aldy
Date: October 2013Title: Smashing Atoms for Peace: Using Linear Accelerators to Produce Medical Isotopes without Highly Enriched Uranium
Authors: David Nusbaum
Date: October 2013Title: Oil, Conflict, and U.S. National Interests
Authors: Jeff D. Colgan
Date: October 2013Title: Identifying Options for a New International Climate Regime Arising from the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action
Authors: Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Robert N. Stavins
Date: October 2013Title: States Will Not Give Nuclear Weapons to Terrorists
Authors: Keir A. Lieber, Daryl Press
Date: September 2013Title: Lessons from Libya: How Not to Intervene
Authors: Alan Kuperman
Date: September 2013Title: The U.S. Shale Oil Boom: Potential Impacts and Vulnerabilities of an Unconventional Energy Source
Authors: Leonardo Maugeri
Date: June 2013Title: North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Future Strategy and Doctrine
Authors: Terence Roehrig
Date: May 2013Title: The Role of Forests in a Future Climate Agreement
Authors: Donna Lee
Date: April 2013Title: Why America Should Not Retrench
Authors: Stephen Brooks, G. John Ikenberry, William Wohlforth
Date: March 2013Title: Bolstering Nonproliferation through Disarmament Progress
Authors: Jeffrey W. Knopf
Date: March 2013Title: A Climate Diplomacy Proposal: Carbon Pricing Consultations
Authors: Adele Morris, Warwick McKibbin, Peter Wilcoxen
Date: March 2013Title: Treaty Design and Duration: Effects on R&D, Participation, and Compliance
Authors: Bard Harstad
Date: January 2013Title: Giving the Surge Partial Credit for Iraq's 2007 Reduction in Violence
Authors: Stephen Biddle, Jeffrey A. Friedman, Jacob N. Shapiro
Date: September 2012Title: Climate Negotiations Open a Window: Key Implications of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action
Authors: Joseph E. Aldy, Robert N. Stavins
Date: September 2012Title: The Durban Platform Negotiations: Goals and Options
Authors: Daniel Bodansky
Date: July 2012Title: The Effectiveness of Leadership Decapitation in Combating Insurgencies
Authors: Patrick B. Johnston
Date: June 2012Title: Global Oil Production is Surging: Implications for Prices, Geopolitics, and the Environment
Authors: Leonardo Maugeri
Date: June 2012Title: Leadership Decapitation and the End of Terrorist Groups
Authors: Bryan C. Price
Date: May 2012Title: To Stay Ahead of China, Stay Engaged in Asia
Authors: Michael Beckley
Date: January 2012Title: The Exaggerated Threat of American Muslim "Homegrown" Terrorism
Authors: Risa Brooks
Date: December 2011Title: Egypt's Parliamentary Elections: The Political Implications of Electoral Transition
Authors: Daniel Tavana
Date: December 2011Title: Attacking Iran: Lessons from the Iran-Iraq War
Authors: Annie Tracy Samuel
Date: December 2011Title: Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly: Current Politics and Next Steps
Authors: Duncan Pickard
Date: November 2011Title: Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation
Authors: Laura Diaz Anadon, Matthew Bunn, Gabriel Chan, Melissa Chan, Charles Jones, Ruud Kempener, Lee, Nathaniel Logar, Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Date: November 2011Title: Nuclear Policy Gridlock in Japan
Authors: Jacques E.C. Hymans
Date: November 2011Title: China's Aircraft Carrier: Chinese Naval Nationalism and Its Implications for the United States
Authors: Robert Ross
Date: October 2011Title: Attacks on Nuclear Infrastructure: Opening Pandora's Box?
Authors: Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer
Date: October 2011Title: Crossing the Rubicon: The Perils of Committing to a Decision
Authors: Dominic D.P. Johnson, Dominic Tierney
Date: September 2011Title: W[h]ither the Kyoto Protocol? Durban and Beyond
Authors: Daniel Bodansky
Date: August 2011Title: Research, Development, and Demonstration for the Future of Nuclear Energy
Authors: Laura D. Anadon, Valentina Bosetti, Bunn, Michela Catenacci, Audrey Lee
Date: June 2011Title: Recommendations for Limiting Transfers of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technologies
Authors: Fred McGoldrick
Date: June 2011Title: A New Case for Wastewater Reuse in Saudi Arabia: Bringing Energy into the Water Equation
Authors: Arani Kajenthira, Laura Diaz Anadon, Afreen Sidiqqi
Date: June 2011Title: Resurrecting Retrenchment: The Grand Strategic Consequences of U.S. Decline
Authors: Paul MacDonald, Joseph M. Parent
Date: May 2011Title: A Bleak Future for the European Project
Authors: Sebastian Rosato
Date: May 2011Title: The Future of U.S. Nuclear Policy: The Case for No First Use
Authors: Michael S. Gerson
Date: February 2011Title: The Foreign Fighter Phenomenon: Islam and Transnational Militancy
Authors: Thomas Hegghammer
Date: February 2011Title: AB 32 and Climate Change: The National Context of State Policies for a Global Commons Problem
Authors: Robert N. Stavins
Date: February 2011Title: Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation
Authors: Calestous Juma
Date: January 2011Title: Towards a Breakthrough for Deadlocked Climate Change Negotiations
Authors: Akihiro Sawa
Date: December 2010Title: Energy Innovation Policy in Major Emerging Countries
Authors: Ruud Kempener
Date: December 2010Title: The International Climate Change Regime: The Road from Copenhagen
Authors: Daniel Bodansky
Date: October 2010Title: Iran's Youth, The Unintended Victims of Sanctions
Authors: Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Date: August 2010Title: Addressing the UAE Natural Gas Crisis: Strategies for a Rational Energy Policy
Authors: Justin Dargin
Date: August 2010Title: Keeping Kim: How North Korea's Regime Stays in Power
Authors: Daniel Byman, Jennifer Lind
Date: July 2010Title: Nuclear Terrorism: Threat Briefing
Date: April 2010Title: Nuclear Terrorism Fact Sheet
Date: April 2010Title: Toward a Post-2010 International Climate Agreement
Authors: Fulvio Conti
Date: March 2010Title: Reducing the U.S. Transportation Sector's Oil Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Authors: W. Ross Morrow, Henry Lee, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Gustavo Collantes
Date: March 2010Title: Climate Change Policies: Many Paths Forward
Authors: Paula Dobriansky, Vaughan Turekian
Date: February 2010Title: U.S. Public Energy Innovation Institutions and Mechanisms: Status & Deficiencies
Authors: Laura Anadon, Matthew Bunn, Charles Jones, Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Date: January 2010Title: The Sao Paulo Proposal for an Improved International Climate Agreement
Authors: Erik Haites
Date: January 2010Title: Pakistan's Nuclear Posture: Implications for South Asian Stability
Authors: Vipin Narang
Date: January 2010Title: Pakistan's Nuclear Posture: Implications for South Asian Stability
Authors: Vipin Narang
Date: January 2010Title: Climate Finance: Key Concepts and Ways Forward
Authors: Richard B. Stewart, Benedict Kingsbury, Bryce Rudyk
Date: December 2009Title: Achieving Comparable Effort through Carbon Price Agreements
Authors: Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris, Peter Wilcoxen
Date: December 2009Title: Beyond Zero Enrichment: Suggestions for an Iranian Nuclear Deal
Authors: Matthew Bunn
Date: November 2009Title: Improving U.S.-China Relations: The Next Steps
Authors: Richard N. Rosecrance
Date: September 2009Title: A Proposal for a Global Upstream Emission Trading System (UGETS)
Authors: Akinobu Yasumoto, Mutsuyoshi Nishimura
Date: September 2009Title: Options for Reforming the Clean Development Mechanism
Date: August 2009Title: The USA-PATRIOT Act
Authors: Eric Rosenbach
Date: July 2009Title: The Role of Private Corporations in the Intelligence Community
Authors: Eric Rosenbach
Date: July 2009Title: State and Local Fusion Centers
Authors: Eric Rosenbach
Date: July 2009Title: How Do We Know This is Not Another Great Depression? Lessons for Policymakers from the 1930s
Authors: Jeffrey Frankel
Date: July 2009