Technology, 5G and the Europe-US Alliance
David Sanger is a national security correspondent and a senior writer. In a 36-year reporting career for The New York Times, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear...
Measuring Social Change in a Complex World
Alnoor Ebrahim is a professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His current research addresses two core dilemmas of accountability facing social enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies: How should they measure and improve their performance? How should they address competing demands for accountability from diverse stakeholders?...
The Global Economy: Prospects and Perils
Jason Furman is Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. This followed eight years as a top economic adviser to President Obama, including serving as the 28th Chairman of the...
The Rise of China and its implications
Joseph S. Nye Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has served...
Valerie Amos
Valerie Ann Amos (13 de marzo de 1954, Georgetown) es una socióloga y política británica. Secretaria General Adjunta de Asuntos Humanitarios y Coordinador del Socorro de Emergencia de las Naciones Unidas.
Nacida en la antigua colonia británica de Guayana. Estudió una licenciatura en sociología en la Universidad de Warwick y...
Engineering by doing
Ed Moriarty has been with the Edgerton Center since 2000. He is the instructor for the fall EC.A790 Engineering, Art, and Science First Year Advising Seminar (co-taught with Diane Brancazio) and is involved in the high school levels of our K–12 outreach program, where he has focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering,...
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Democracia y libertad en tiempos de posverdad
Karl Popper escribió una vez que “para una nación, la libertad es más importante que la riqueza, y, en la vida política, esta es...
Juan Miguel Zunzunegui
Juntos fuimos imperio
Hace cien años, el activista por los derechos de los afroamericanos, Marcus Garvey, escribió que un pueblo sin el conocimiento de su historia pasada,...
Ayn Rand, o el deseo de libertad
Casi nadie conoce el nombre de Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, una escritora y filósofa rusa nacida en San Petesburgo en 1905. Pero si hablamos de...
Cuando se pierde el control de la inflación
A mediados del siglo XX, Milton Friedman demostró que “la inflación es siempre y en cualquier lugar un fenómeno monetario”. Dicho de otra manera,...
La mujer, en primer plano de la Historia
La historia la escriben los vencedores… en todos los sentidos. Sabemos muy bien quiénes fueron los grandes nombres que protagonizaron el descubrimiento de América,...