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Just three Big Tech firms control two-thirds of the global market for cloud computing resources used to develop AI models. This centralization results in AI systems designed to serve corporate interests.Publicly developed and owned AI…

UCLA Law School Professor Kimberly Clausing gives the Biden Administration high praise for its climate policies in the latest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics…

2024-03-04This six-session study group, led by Arctic Initiative Senior Fellow Margaret Williams, evaluated the costs and benefits of renewing cooperation with Russia on science and conservation issues. In the process, participants…

Most cooperation between the West and Russia on conservation and research has been put on hold in the Arctic, but Indigenous organizations have some flexibility.Since Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022, most forms of collaboration…

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ed Djerejian says Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin once told him, “There is no military solution to this conflict, only a political one.” Rabin was assassinated a few years later, and today…

Mon., Apr. 1, 2024 | 12:00pm - 1:15pm Rubenstein Building - David T.…

The COVID-19 pandemic was a global phenomenon, but its impacts in the Arctic, and the experiences of Arctic communities, were distinct.In September 2023, the Arctic Initiative hosted the official launch of “Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and…

In July 2023, the Arctic Yearbook launched a special issue on “Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned.” The volume includes fifteen peer-reviewed articles and ten shorter contributions and is…

Arctic Indigenous Peoples Strengthen Arctic GovernanceRemarks by Sara Olsvig during Panel 1 - "Arctic Governance Organizations Promoting Cooperation"The first Arctic Peoples’ Conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1973. Here…

As we enter the second year of the Russo-Ukranian war, it is prudent that the foreign policy community examine the impacts of the conflict on other regions, including Latin America.Despite the distance between Latin America and Ukraine,…

Executive SummaryThe American public is increasingly losing trust and confidence in the military and has a lower propensity to serve. This has significant implications for the safety and security of the nation. To overcome these issues,…

February 24, 2024, marks the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The war seems endless today. Both sides are dug into trenches on the front where they fight over scraps of land and devastated cities. The…

Feb 22, 2024Matthew Evangelista examines the precedents and possibilities for postwar European security.

2024-02-27AI has been billed as a new frontier: an expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of wealth and human flourishing. Yet, time and again, its big-tech owners have used the frontiersman billing to declare themselves…

As a doctor who studies gastrointestinal pathology, Dr. Ashlie Burkart has long recognized the important connection between food systems and health. Food systems are also increasingly recognized as having a direct impact on the health of…

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack…

Key Takeaways As global average temperatures increase, the need for air conditioning will mount, driving higher energy prices.Higher energy prices act as financial stressors, particularly for low-income households, resulting in consumers…

Harvard Kennedy School’s JFK Jr. Forum was transformed into the White House Situation Room Tuesday with Harvard and MIT faculty and former government officials portraying National Security Council members and other officials charged with…

5. The Arctic can serve as a model peaceful governance for other regions.The concept of a peace park in the Bering Strait, proposed by former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, emphasizes the early roots…

2024-02-22Professors hear a great deal these days about how hard it is to get our students to listen to, much less to engage with, opinions they dislike. The problem, we are told, is that students are either “snowflakes” with fragile…

AbstractUnderstanding how science and technology advance has long been of interest to diverse scholarly communities. Thus far, however, such understanding has not been easy to map to, and thus to improve, the operational practice of…

Earlier this week, veiled comments started to emerge on Capitol Hill regarding an unnamed and "serious national security threat." By Thursday, a White House spokesman, John Kirby, let the American public in on what members of Congress…

November 2013 seemed like an unlikely time for another Ukrainian revolution.Nine years had passed since the Orange Revolution, a massive wave of popular protests against a massively rigged presidential election, achieved inspiring…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump set off alarm bells in Europe when he told a campaign rally that he would encourage Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to any countries he judged to be delinquent on their defense obligations.…

Belfer Center Fellow Syra Madad, Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals and Belfer Center Fellow, has been named to the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on the…

IntroductionOn February 14, 2023, the Russian Federation announced that it would suspend its annual payments to the Arctic Council “until the resumption of real work in this format with the participation of all member countries.”i This…

Introduction“While the battlefield has changed since the Cold War, leadership in science, technology, and innovation remains the most important weapon in the current competitive environment.”Securing U.S. leadership in cutting-edge,…

Imagine that two years ago—before Putin invaded Ukraine—someone had come to the US with a credible proposition to hobble Russia’s military threat to Europe for the decade ahead without the loss of a single American soldier. How much…

2024-02-01Innovative "ocean clusters” may help save the fishing industry, clean toxins and plastics from the oceans, save burn victims, improve your energy drink, and much more – by using seafood waste, writes Greg Harris.

If you are an Arctic enthusiast like me, your newsfeed on Wednesday morning was likely full of articles announcing Russia’s decision to suspend annual payments to the Arctic Council until “real work” resumes or some variation on that…

The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements is contributing to the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, supported by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University. The Initiative seeks…

This piece was written to accompany the event, “Europe's Position in a Multipower and Polarized World,” featuring Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade for Hungary and Arancha González, Former Spanish Minister of Foreign…

Rich and powerful countries like the United States can do the same things over and over, even when they aren't working, without facing immediate and severe consequences. The White House can change hands, presidential appointees can come…

Growing tensions between Iran, its neighbors, Israel and the U.S. are causing heightened concern in Tehran, after deadly use of force by the regime and its allies. Consequently, Tehran reached out to its allies, resulting in an Iraqi…

Over the past few months, much has been said about the relationship between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, some of it strikingly shallow and misinformed, with recent op-eds characterising it as a “rivalry” or a “rift”, and one going as far as…

“If only we had a partner for peace.”That’s been the refrain in the Israel-Palestinian conflict for as long as I’ve followed it. But the truth is you don’t need just a partner; you need two partners able to deliver at the same…

2024-02-08Eminent Harvard economist Richard Zeckhauser presented arguments for additional climate adaptation measures in the latest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental…

From the Introduction: When I began my professional career in the mid-aughts, counterinsurgency, or “COIN,” was beginning to supplant counterterrorism as the most important buzzword in Washington, DC. The steadily expanding civil war in…

With most Americans believing that the United States is in decline, Donald Trump claims he can "Make America Great Again." But Trump's premise is simply wrong, and it is his proposed remedies that pose the biggest threat to…

Recently, California surprised the public-health world by easing the state's recommendations for asymptomatic people who test positive for COVID. The state previously urged them to isolate for five days to avoid infecting others. In a…

2024-01-31After six years of U.S. “maximum pressure,” Iran’s economy continues to defy dire predictions of economic collapse that motivated Trump’s hasty 2018 withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (also known as the JCPOA). The Biden…

Measles stands as one of the most highly contagious diseases among the array of viruses known to us. In fact, it’s so contagious that merely entering a room, up to two hours after it was vacated by an infected person, can lead to…

Measles stands as one of the most highly contagious diseases among the array of viruses known to us. In fact, it’s so contagious that merely entering a room, up to two hours after it was vacated by an infected person, can lead to…

Today, four months after Hamas’ terrorist attack in southern Israel, the grim toll of that tragedy continues to mount: more than 1,400 Israelis killed. More than 100 hostages still trapped somewhere underneath Gaza. And according to…

Observing Republican members of Congress oppose the extension of US support to Ukraine, one cannot help but wonder what happened to one of the United States’ two major political parties. This includes those GOP politicians who, while…

Much is difficult to understand about what has happened to one of our two political parties.   Among other things, I don’t understand why some Republican congresspeople oppose an extension of US support for the government of Ukraine in…

U.S. foreign policy in recent years can look like a series of misadventures—failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bungled peace efforts in the Middle East, growing nuclear capabilities in some rival powers, and any number of other…

In this new era of strategic competition, the Department of Defense (DoD) must rapidly scale emerging and innovative technologies to maintain U.S. global leadership. However, due to its antiquated acquisition systems, the U.S. military…

2024-01-25U.S.-Mexico border security has been a central policy matter and divisive political issue in the United States for decades. The U.S. border control enterprise has faced two distinctly different eras of unauthorized migration:…

South Sudan, the world's newest nation, was once the great hope of the international community. Born in July 2011 out of the shadow of Africa's longest civil war, the fledgling nation in eastern Central Africa was celebrated and…