Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "IGA - International Global Affairs"
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Abuse of Dominance by High-Technology Enterprises: A Comparison of U.S. and E.C. Approaches
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)This paper compares how the United States and the European Community dealt with competition policy challenges by two firms operating at the frontiers of technology: Microsoft and Intel. The U.S. Microsoft case was broadly ... -
Enabling a Nuclear Revival — And Managing its Risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin examine the conditions needed for nuclear energy to grow on a scale large enough for it to be a significant part of the world’s response to climate change. They consider the safety, security, ... -
Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India’s environmental ... -
An Expanded Three-Part Architecture for Post-2012 International Climate Policy
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)We describe the major features of a post-2012 international global climate policy architecture with three essential elements: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated ... -
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Understanding Human Security
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Since the end of the Cold War, security studies have broadened to take into account a wide range of non-military threats ranging from poverty to environmental concerns rather than just national defense. Security scholars, ... -
The Global Health System: Actors, Norms, and Expectations in Transition
(Public Library of Science, 2010)The article discusses the changing quality of global health institutions. It cites the factors that affect the change including variety of civil society, nongovernmental organizations, and private firms, changing relationships ... -
International Affairs and the Public Sphere
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems. There is today no shortage of global problems that social scientists should study in depth: ethnic and ... -
International Workshop on Research, Development, and Demonstration to Enhance the Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting Climate and Energy Challenges
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011)Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is likely to need in the 21st century, or a major part in meeting other energy challenges. ... -
Iraqi Politics and Implications for Oil and Energy
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Iraq’s ability to reach its energy potential should be of broad regional and international concern. Iraq could be poised for a dramatic transformation, one in which it finally escapes the political and technical constraints ... -
Nuclear Lessons for Cyber Security?
(United States Air Force, 2011)Identifying “revolutions in military affairs” is arbitrary, but some inflection points in technological change are larger than others: for example, the gunpowder revolution in early modern Europe, the industrial revolution ... -
Preventing the Next Fukushima
(AAAS, 2011)While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami—a disaster unlikely to occur in many ... -
Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development During the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate policies to mitigate catastrophic oil spill risks. This essay reviews the Obama ... -
Reducing Nuclear Dangers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Ron Rosenbaum wants us to be worried. His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III is intended as an urgent warning that the terrifying dangers of nuclear weapons did not disappear when the Cold War ... -
Reducing the Greatest Risks of Nuclear Theft and Terrorism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)Keeping nuclear weapons and the materials needed to make them out of terrorist hands is critical to U.S. and world security - and to the future of nuclear energy as well. In the aftermath of a terrorist nuclear attack, ... -
Securing Nuclear Stockpiles: The First Line of Defense in Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
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Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture: The Role of Biotechnology
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012)Science and innovation have always been the key forces behind agricultural growth in particular and economic transformation in general. More specifically, the ability to add value to agricultural production via the ... -
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)We describe three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international global climate policy architecture: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated but meaningful ... -
The U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment of Nuclear Terrorism
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, and Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies., 2011)Nuclear terrorism is a real and urgent threat. Given the potentially catastrophic consequences, even a small probability of terrorists getting and detonating a nuclear bomb is enough to justify urgent action to reduce the ... -
Why do Arab States Lag the World in Gender Equality?
(2009)Why do Arab states lag behind the rest of the world in gender equality? Social structural, cultural, and institutional accounts offer alternative perspectives. This study critiques the ‘petroleum patriarchy’ thesis, presented ... -
Will Electric Cars Transform the U.S. Market
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)For the past forty years, United States Presidents have repeatedly called for a reduction in the country's dependence on fossil fuels in general and foreign oil specifically. Stronger efficiency standards and higher taxes ...