The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) welcomes a diverse group of 32 fellows to the Center's four research programs. The fellows include several electrical engineers, a historian, a physicist, a biologist, a journalist, a lawyer, a geographer, a government official, along with economists and political scientists.

The Belfer Center, renamed and re-endowed in 1997, is the hub of the Kennedy School of Government's research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy. The Center's mission is to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, and international affairs intersect. BCSIA's leadership begins with the recognition of science and technology as driving forces transforming threats and opportunities in international affairs.

The heart of BCSIA is its resident research community of more than 100 scholars: Harvard faculty, analysts, practitioners and, each year, a new group of research fellows. This year's group of research fellows is the most international, the most interdisciplinary, and the largest group of research fellows the Center has hosted.

Fellows in the International Security Program

The fellows are as follows:

Clifford Bob is writing a book that focuses on the origins of alliances between Third World political movements and nongovernmental organizations based in the developed world. He received his J.D. from New York University and his Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T.

Vladimir Boxer has a joint appointment at the International Security Program and the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, where he is doing research on democratization in Russia. He is trained as a pediatrician and has been active in Russian politics.

Marie Chevrier's research concerns the changing role of neutral and non-aligned states in disarmament negotiations. She is senior research fellow and associate director of the Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Warfare Armament and Arms Limitation. She holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard, and is on leave from the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas.

Renee de Nevers specializes in Russian foreign policy, European security, and Western efforts to assist democratization in former communist states. She received a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Her book, The Sources of Change in Eastern Europe, will be published by the M.I.T. Press as part of the BCSIA Studies in International Security series in 1998.

Jason D. Ellis is completing a book about the Nunn-Lugar Act, a program designed to secure nuclear weapons and materials in the former Soviet Union. He received his Ph.D. in international relations from American University's School of International Service.

Amy E. Gordon joins the Center's new project on chemical and biological weapons. She is on leave from the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Bureau of Multilateral Affairs, where she served most recently as principal adviser on the Chemical Weapons Convention for the Clinton Administration's ratification effort.

Peter Grose is writing on intelligence history in the Cold War. He is the former executive editor of the journal Foreign Affairs. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and member of the Times editorial board. From 1977 to 1978, he served as deputy director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. He is a graduate of Yale and Oxford.

Alexander Lukin's research will focus on changes in political beliefs under reform in Russia and China, and the prospects for international security in the Far East. A native of Russia, he received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He also received a diploma in philosophy from Beijing University and has twice been a candidate for the State Duma.

Kate O'Neill's research interests are comparative risk analysis and national/international energy policies, in particular the development of nuclear energy programs. She is jointly appointed by the International Security and Science, Technology and Public Policy Programs. She received her Ph.D.. in political science from Columbia University.

Mary Elise Sarotte will be finishing her dissertation, a case study of attempts to negotiate with, and thereby democratize, the East European dictatorship (Ostpolitik and the SED Politburo, 1969-74). She is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale.

Tom Sauer works on nuclear arms control and nuclear proliferation, and European defense and security. He is the recipient of a NATO Individual Scholarship, and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of International Relations at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Taylor Seybolt is finishing his dissertation, which investigates the efficacy of military intervention for humanitarian purposes, in which he develops an analytic framework to explain the interactions of the humanitarian, military, and political communities in complex emergency situations. His cases include Somalia, Rwanda, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Haiti. He is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at M.I.T.

Brian Taylor examines military intervention in domestic politics in Russia and the Soviet Union over the last three centuries, concentrating on the 20th century. He has a joint appointment in the International Security Program and the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project.

Richard Weitz studies American foreign policy and European and Eurasian security. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard.

Michael Winnerstig is finishing his dissertation,

"A World Reformed? Western Security Strategies During and Beyond the Second Cold War, 1981-1997." He is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Stockholm University and a reserve captain in the Royal Swedish Army.

Fellow in the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project

Cameron Half graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in social studies in 1997. His senior honors essay, for which he received a Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, was on the political economy of sustainable foreign trade policy liberalization in Russia and Estonia.

Fellows in the Environment and Natural Resources Program's Global Environmental Assessment Project

Pascal Bader's research focuses on devising a system of internationally tradeable CO2 emission permits for the European utility sector. He will examine to what extent lessons from existing permits systems can be useful in designing a system of tradeable CO2 allowances.

Liliana Botcheva, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard's Department of Government, is completing her dissertation on the influence of the European Union on environmental politics in East European countries.

David Cash studies the role of science and politics in domestic

environmental decision making, the role of scientific assessments in the negotiation and development of international environmental treaties, and scientific assessments of global environmental risk. He is a doctoral candidate in public policy at the Kennedy School.

Alex Farrell's work will include advanced pollution control policies, especially market- and information-based techniques, as well as the use of science and modeling in the formation of control strategies for tropospheric pollutants. He served as an officer on board a nuclear-powered attack submarine before completing his Ph.D. in energy management and environmental policy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Terry Keating will focus on the role of predictive modeling and impact analyses in the development of tropospheric ozone and acid rain policies in North America and Europe. Keating has worked as an air quality consultant in Los Angeles.

Clark Miller's current research examines the changing roles of experts and expertise in international environmental governance. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University for radar remote sensing studies of Earth's upper atmosphere.

Susanne Moser is a global change and hazards researcher. Her dissertation was on the sources of uncertainty and ignorance in the human dimensions of sea-level rise. She was trained in Germany as a physical geographer, and later in the United States, at Clark University, as a human geographer.

Paul Samson has been the international program coordinator at Green Cross International, a Geneva-based environmental organization directed by Mikhail Gorbachev. His research focuses on international environmental cooperation. A Canadian, he holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva.

Stacy D. Van Deveer is researching the effects on domestic environmental policy of international environmental cooperation around the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. He will explore the role played by scientists and international scientific collaboration within international politics.

Fellows in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

Y.T. Chien is director of the Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University.

Paul de Sa works on the Managing the Atom Project. He holds an M.A. from Cambridge University, and a D.Phil. in theoretical physics from Oxford.

Masamichi (Max) Ishii is continuing his research on technology innovation. He is project manager of the Center's joint research project on Universities and Science-Based Industrial Development between U.S. and Japanese scholars. He is a 1990 graduate of the Kennedy School's M.P.P. program.

Clarisa Long's research concerns include the legal, economic, and policy issues surrounding intellectual property rights, genetic research, and the biotechnology industry. Previously, she was a molecular biologist, including a post at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. As an attorney in private practice, she has prosecuted patents and worked on intellectual property, takings, and federal procurement cases.

Ambuj Sagar is carrying out research on national energy research and development policies. He is interested in science and environment policy, especially how it plays out and interacts in developing countries. He completed his graduate studies in materials science and technology and policy at M.I.T.

Eui Jae Kim will work on science and technology policy and information infrastructure policy development in Korea. He will also contribute to the Harvard Information Infrastructure Policy Gateway by providing information on the situation in Korea.

Jin Yu's research interests include international cooperation in science and technology, cooperation between industry and universities, and the microeconomics of science and technology. He has been a professor of materials science and engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology since 1982. He will also contribute to the Harvard Information Infrastructure Policy Gateway by providing information on the situation in Korea.

Farah Zahra's research area is nuclear proliferation in South Asia. She is currently exploring methods of implementing nuclear nonproliferation in that region. She has just completed her M. Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge, England, where she worked on U.S. policy toward Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.