NEWSLETTER ARTICLES
Summer 2008
Belfer Center Speakers
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
Each week, the Belfer Center welcomes government officials, policymakers, and experts from around the world to share their insights and diverse views on critical current issues. See who joined us in the Spring of 2008.
Pat Semansky
Summer 2008
"New Orleans' Broadmoor is Model for Disaster Recovery"
Belfer Center Newsletter
Belfer Center Broadmoor Project has developed a strategy in which to effectively deal with natural disaster recovery. Developed while working with the New Orleans neighborhood, Broadmoor, the recently published Broadmoor community recovery guide has been used in other U.S. cities to help communities recover post-disaster.
Summer 2008
From the Director
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
Now more than ever, the current economic situation drives home the relationship between the economy and national security. Several of our Belfer Center colleagues — among them Larry Summers, Marty Feldstein, Paul Volcker, and Jeff Frankel — not only warned about the coming economic troubles well ahead of the rest of the pack, they also are leading the search for solutions.
Summer 2008
"Belfer Center Quotes of Interest"
Belfer Center Newsletter
Quotations from Op-Eds of Belfer Center faculty and fellows.
Belfer Center
Summer 2008
"Iraq: Stay or Go? Center Analysts Explore the Options"
Belfer Center Newsletter
Belfer Center experts Graham Allison, Eric Rosenbach, Meghan O'Sullivan, Kevin Ryan, and Stephen Walt offer their suggestions for ways forward in Iraq. Some proposals include getting out quickly, staying committed to Iraq, and making forces sustainable over time.
Summer 2008
"Hot Off the Presses"
Belfer Center Newsletter
Recently published books authored or edited by Belfer Center faculty, staff, students and affiliates.
Summer 2008
"Belfer Center Newsmakers"
Belfer Center Newsletter
A compilation of Belfer Center faculty, staff, students and affiliates that have made a noteworthy accomplishment.
Justin Ide
Summer 2008
"Spotlight: Lawrence Summers"
Belfer Center Newsletter
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and Belfer Center Board member, has been a leader in determining the state of the current economic recession and offering solutions to help save the American public from being seriously harmed by it.
Kent Dayton
Summer 2008
"Super-Delegates Q&A with Elaine Kamarck"
Belfer Center Newsletter
By Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy
With the current attention on the role of super-delegates in the selection of a Democratic candidate for president, we asked Elaine Kamarck, Kennedy School lecturer in public policy, if we might reprint a portion of her doctoral dissertation on the history of super-delegates. Her dissertation, "Structure as Strategy: Presidential Nominating Politics Since Reform,” was submitted to the political science department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. The following is extracted from the original. Kamarck will serve as a super-delegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
