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Global Engagement

The Harvard community is dazzlingly diverse, but shares one common ideal: to better the world. The Harvard student experience is one of truly global education. Together with faculty and alumni, students work around the world to change policy, serve the community, and make a difference.

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    By Ben W. Heineman Jr. (This article first appeared on TheAtlantic.com, where Ben Heineman writes frequently) The international media have made a huge story out of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s power-consolidating decrees and the balloting on his proposed constitution. How … Continue reading > Read More…

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  • A WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East: Creating the Conditions for Sustained Progress

    How can the states of the Middle East begin to create the political conditions for achieving sustained progress toward the elimination of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons? This paper examines the challenges and obstacles that the parties of the region will need to overcome to bring a WMD-free zone into force, and recommends near-term Read More…

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  • A WMD Free Zone in the Middle East: Creating the Conditions for Sustained Progress

    How can the states of the Middle East begin to create the political conditions under which they can achieve serious and sustained progress toward controlling and eliminating nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons across the region? This paper examines the challenges and obstacles that the parties of the region will need to overcome to bring Read More…

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  • The Leap in North Korea's Ballistic Missile Program: The Iran Factor

    John S. Park, Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Project on Managing the Atom Associate, argues that cooperation between North Korea and Iran has been a critical—yet underexamined—enabler of North Korea's recent success. Read More…

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  • Peacemakers 2012

    "As the holidays approach, 2012 hasn't provided much hope for the seasonal wish of 'Peace on Earth,' Not when the headlines reveal the savagery of the Syrian and Congolese civil wars, Hamas-Israel rocket barrages, insurrection in Mali, fighting in Afghanistan, violence in Egypt, and the heartbreaking nightmare of the death of innocent young Read More…

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  • EdX expansion set for spring

    EdX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced its spring course and module offerings, including four at Harvard. Read More…

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  • Is Chuck Hagel the Right Pick for the Pentagon?

    "The debate over whether Chuck Hagel should be appointed defense secretary has centered on his sometimes critical views of Israel. But that’s the wrong issue. The question is whether Hagel is the right person to run the Pentagon at a delicate moment of transition in defense policy and spending....Moreover, the defense secretary doesn’t set U.S. Read More…

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  • High-Risk, High-Reward: Will Obama Seek a Free-Trade Pact With Europe?

    By Ben W. Heineman Jr. (This article first appeared on TheAtlantic.com, where Ben Heineman wries frequently.) Just after the New Year, President Obama will have to decide whether to take a dramatic, high-stakes gamble on a very unsexy topic: a … Continue reading > Read More…

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  • A Defector's Account of Syrian Chemical Weapons on the Move

    "Reports from inside two Syrian chemical weapons facilities offer chilling new evidence that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime developed special vehicles last year for moving and mixing the weapons — and an unconfirmed allegation that Lebanese allies of the regime, presumably in Hezbollah, may have been trained 11 months ago in the weapons’ Read More…

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