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Office Hours

Host Aroop Mukharji sits down for conversations with experts from the Belfer Center and beyond to discuss their areas of expertise and to get to know the people on the front lines and at the forefront... Read more

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Avril Haines on Being the First Woman No. 2 at the CIA, North Korea, and Living the Hipster Dream

Avril Haines on Being the First Woman No. 2 at the CIA, North Korea, and Living the Hipster Dream

Avril Haines, former CIA Deputy Director and former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama, chats with Aroo... Read more

2 Oct 2017

19mins

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Jake Sullivan on the Secret 2015 Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Staying Sharp on a Demanding Travel Schedule

Jake Sullivan on the Secret 2015 Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Staying Sharp on a Demanding Travel Schedule

Jake Sulllivan, former Director of the Policy Planning Office at the U.S. State Department and former National Security ... Read more

1 Nov 2017

22mins

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James K. Sebenius on Kissinger the Negotiator, Negotiating Tactics, and Trump the Negotiator

James K. Sebenius on Kissinger the Negotiator, Negotiating Tactics, and Trump the Negotiator

James K. Sebenius, the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author (with... Read more

4 Sep 2018

44mins

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Graham Allison on U.S.-China, War, Thucydides, and Corgis

Graham Allison on U.S.-China, War, Thucydides, and Corgis

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Graham Allison (@GrahamTAllison) takes a moment to talk with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukh... Read more

30 Jun 2017

24mins

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Kendall Hoyt on Bio Defense, Outbreaks, and Anti-Vaxxers

Kendall Hoyt on Bio Defense, Outbreaks, and Anti-Vaxxers

Kendall Hoyt, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School and former fellow with the Belfer Center’s... Read more

2 Apr 2018

23mins

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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook on U.S.-Europe Relations, Language Influencing Policy, and Dual Citizenship

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook on U.S.-Europe Relations, Language Influencing Policy, and Dual Citizenship

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (@Cluverc), Executive Director of the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project and the newly ... Read more

1 Aug 2018

37mins

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Halla Logadóttir on the Future of the Arctic Region, Sustainability in Iceland, and Icelandic Names

Halla Logadóttir on the Future of the Arctic Region, Sustainability in Iceland, and Icelandic Names

Halla Logadóttir, former director of the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavík University and co-founder of the Belfer C... Read more

2 Jul 2018

29mins

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James Clapper on His Book “Facts and Fears,” Defending the Intelligence Community, and Comic Books

James Clapper on His Book “Facts and Fears,” Defending the Intelligence Community, and Comic Books

James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence and a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Projec... Read more

10 Dec 2018

30mins

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Calder Walton on the History of Intelligence, Russian Espionage, and His Favorite Secret

Calder Walton on the History of Intelligence, Russian Espionage, and His Favorite Secret

Calder Walton (@calder_walton), the author of Empire of Secrets: British intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of... Read more

3 Oct 2018

26mins

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Robby Mook on the Lessons from the 2016 Campaign, The Defending Digital Democracy Project, and Dark Chocolate

Robby Mook on the Lessons from the 2016 Campaign, The Defending Digital Democracy Project, and Dark Chocolate

Robby Mook (@RobbyMook), Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Manager and a Belfer Center Senior Fellow, sits down with with ... Read more

5 Nov 2018

32mins

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Radosław Sikorski on the Rise of Right-wing Nationalism, Russia, and Gastrodiplomacy

Radosław Sikorski on the Rise of Right-wing Nationalism, Russia, and Gastrodiplomacy

Radosław Sikorski (@sikorskiradek), former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister of Poland and a Fisher Family Fellow wi... Read more

1 Jun 2018

21mins

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Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on the DOE’s National Laboratories, Clean Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, and Her Favorite Energy Bar

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on the DOE’s National Laboratories, Clean Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, and Her Favorite Energy Bar

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (@LSRTweets), former Deputy Secretary of Energy and Belfer Center Senior Fellow, talks with A... Read more

1 Feb 2018

29mins

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Meghan O’Sullivan on Fracking, Climate Change, Tight Oil, and Her Early Career Start

Meghan O’Sullivan on Fracking, Climate Change, Tight Oil, and Her Early Career Start

Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School an... Read more

1 Sep 2017

31mins

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Chuck Freilich on the Israeli National Security, U.S. Retrenchment from the Middle East and Making Aliyah

Chuck Freilich on the Israeli National Security, U.S. Retrenchment from the Middle East and Making Aliyah

Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Adviser, Belfer Center Senior Fellow, and Author of “Israeli Nat... Read more

1 Mar 2018

26mins

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Margaret Macmillan on Good History, Dead White Man Theory and Canadian vs. U.S. Donuts

Margaret Macmillan on Good History, Dead White Man Theory and Canadian vs. U.S. Donuts

Margaret Macmillan, Professor of History at the University of Toronto and affiliate with the Belfer Center’s Applied His... Read more

3 May 2018

24mins

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Ehud Barak on Israel, the U.S., Trump, and His Curiosity About Clocks

Ehud Barak on Israel, the U.S., Trump, and His Curiosity About Clocks

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak (@barak_ehud), the most decorated soldier in Israel’s history and a non-resid... Read more

1 May 2017

23mins

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Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Technology, Being in the Cabinet, and the Usefulness of Medieval History

Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Technology, Being in the Cabinet, and the Usefulness of Medieval History

Ash Carter, the 25th Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Belfer Center, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukhar... Read more

3 Jan 2018

20mins

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Mike Rogers on Leaks, the Russian Ambassador, and What Causes the Divide in Congress

Mike Rogers on Leaks, the Russian Ambassador, and What Causes the Divide in Congress

Former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers (@RepMikeRogers), the U.S. Representative for the 8th distr... Read more

1 Jun 2017

24mins

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Vera Mironova on ISIS’s Drinking Problem, Embedding in Conflict Zones, and the Job Market for Insurgents

Vera Mironova on ISIS’s Drinking Problem, Embedding in Conflict Zones, and the Job Market for Insurgents

Vera Mironova (@vera_mironov), an Associate with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program, talks with Aroop Mu... Read more

1 Dec 2017

25mins

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Ban Ki-moon on Trump, Climate Change, the UN, and His Favorite Foods

Ban Ki-moon on Trump, Climate Change, the UN, and His Favorite Foods

Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations (2007–2016), takes a moment to talk with Aroop Mukharji (@a... Read more

2 Aug 2017

22mins

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