Co-founder of the Center for a New American Security and former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy, Senior Adviser for International Affairs at the U.S. Institute of Peace and former National Security Advisor to U.S. President Geo ...

The Honorable Thomas E. Donilon, U.S. National Security Advisor, spoke with Belfer Center Director Graham Allison following a welcome and introduction by Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence Summers. Donilon addressed questions ranging from the interaction ...

In this Forum, former Governor Michael Dukakis questioned former Greek Prime Minister and IOP Visiting Fellow George Papandreou about his experiences as Prime Minister, factors that contributed to the debt crisis, the effectiveness of the European Union&# ...

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, presented the 2012 Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press. She addressed the relationship between open and clo ...

With the guidance of moderator and IOP Fellow John Carr, panelists E.J. Dionne, Kim Lawton and Michael Cromartie addressed two classically controversial topics, religion and politics. The conversation analyzed the role of religion within the 2012 presiden ...

Live-taped for the BBC program, The Public Philosopher, Michael J. Sandel, Harvard University’s Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, engaged the audience in a lively debate about healthcare policy, social welfare, and the philosophical mean ...

This Forum provided a behind the scenes look at U.S. presidential debates, alongside predictions for the first presidential debate between President Obama and Governor Romney. Tad Devine, Democratic Political and Media Strategist, spoke of his approach to ...

Stephen Walt moderates this discussion of the possibility of a military attack on Iran’s nuclear program by four distinguished panelists—Nazila Fathi, an journalist who reported for The New York Times from Tehran until forced to leave by government threat ...

Jennie Bowser, National Conference of State Legislatures Senior Fellow; John Fund, National Affairs Columnist for the National Review Online; Tova Wang, Senior Democracy Fellow for Demos and Fellow for The Century Foundation;  and Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. ...

In this packed Forum, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kennedy addressed the Harvard community and answered several questions from the audience. He discussed the role of Ireland in today's growing economy, the historic and current value Ireland of Ireland t ...