New Society

By Hope A. Jones
Hope A. Jones ’08, a Government concentrator from Leverett House, graduates from Harvard College this year.
Ravaged by three wars in the last thirty years, Iraq—to some—seems beyond salvation. Religious terrorists across the country pose a grave threat to the country’s future. Sectarian violence, once political or territorial in nature, has become increasingly [...]

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By Cindy D. Tan

Cindy D. Tan ’08, a History of Art and Architecture concentrator from Eliot House, graduates from Harvard College this year.
Iran’s April 8 announcement that it plans to install 6,000 centrifuges at its main enrichment site at Natanz comes without surprise given the regime’s flagrant posturing in recent years. After breaching its [...]

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By Jonathan S. Greenstein
Jonathan S. Greenstein ’10 attends Harvard College and is an Economics concentrator in Currier House.
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks by Al Qaeda, the United States Government has heightened its focus on global cash flows. Vast and increasing amounts of money travel across international borders on a daily [...]

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Interviewed by Julia I. Bertelsmann and Joel B. Pollak
Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09 attends Harvard College and is an Economics concentrator in Eliot House.
Joel B. Pollak ’99 is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Cape Town. He was a political speechwriter for the Leader of the Opposi-tion in South Africa from [...]

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Interviewed by Joel B. Pollak
Joel B. Pollak ’99 is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Cape Town. He was a political speechwriter for the Leader of the Opposition in South Africa from 2002 to 2006 and is a second-year student at Harvard Law School.
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Bassem Eid is the Executive Director and co-founder of [...]

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Observations from an American in Iran
By Cindy D. Tan
Cindy D. Tan ’08 attends Harvard College and is a History of Art and Architecture concentrator in Eliot House.
Iranian police cars are recognizable by their clean, white bodies, cobalt blue strips and, most notably, the silver Mercedes medallions perched on their hoods. Often they sit in the [...]

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By Joel B. Pollak
Joel B. Pollak ’99 is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Cape Town. He was a political speechwriter for the Leader of the Opposi-tion in South Africa from 2002 to 2006 and is a second-year student at Harvard Law School
JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER AND STEPHEN M. WALT, The Israel Lobby [...]

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By Matthew D. Klayman
Matthew D. Klayman ’10 attends Harvard College and is a History concen-trator in Quincy House.
ISABELLA GINOR AND GIDEON REMEZ, Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War (New Haven: Yale Univer-sity Press, 2007)
In Foxbats Over Dimona, authors Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez make a startling claim: that during [...]

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By Jacob M. Victor
Jacob M. Victor ’09 attends Harvard College and is a Social Studies Concentrator in Leverett House.
Imagine that an American director today decided to make a film about the founding of the State of Israel.  And imagine that in this film he depicted a steamy romance between an American protestant nurse and [...]

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JEWS AND POWER
Ruth R. Wisse (Nextbook, Schocken, 2007)
Harvard University’s Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Lit-erature, Ruth R. Wisse, explores the Jewish relationship to power across Jewish history in Israel and the Diaspora, particu-larly the Jewish trend towards “moral solipsism” and the “poli-tics of accommodation.” She also explores the effects of anti-Semitism on Jewish politics, on [...]

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MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY AT HARVARD (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh)
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) is a project of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at the Weatherhead Center for In-ternational Affairs, Harvard University. MESH is a community of scholars who are interested in the formulation of U.S. policy toward the Middle East. MESH is convened by Harvard Uni-versity’s [...]

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