In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government contend that the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy is its intimate relationship with Israel. The authors argue that although often justified as reflecting shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, the U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the “Israel Lobby." This paper goes o...| www.hks.harvard.edu
Dear HKS faculty and staff, It is with deep sadness that I write to let you know that our friend and colleague Christopher “Sandy” Jencks passed away on Saturday, February 8th.| www.hks.harvard.edu
February 1, 2025, Video: "Interview on February 1, 2025 with Jessica Dean of CNN on how Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada defy economic logic."| www.hks.harvard.edu
David Deming is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also the Faculty Dean of Kirkland House at Harvard College and a Research Associate at NBER. From 2021 to 2024 he served as the Academic Dean of HKS.| www.hks.harvard.edu
The Trump administration aims to radically improve government efficiency. As Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy prepare to launch their initiative, Harvard Kennedy School experts lay out what possibilities and perils lie ahead.| www.hks.harvard.edu
A message from Dean Jeremy WeinsteinDear Harvard Kennedy School Faculty, Students, Staff, and Fellows,It is with deep sadness that I write to let you know that David Gergen has passed away after a long illness.| www.hks.harvard.edu
The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth addresses some of the common questions about the 3.5% rule, as well as several updates from more recent work on this topic.| www.hks.harvard.edu
Robert D. Putnam is the Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, having retired from active teaching in May 2018. Raised in a small town in Ohio, he was educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association.| www.hks.harvard.edu
Erica Chenoweth is the Academic Dean for Faculty Development and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School, Faculty Dean at Pforzheimer House at Harvard College, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute.| www.hks.harvard.edu
As Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government, Marshall Ganz teaches, researches, and writes on leadership, narrative, strategy and organization in social movements, civic associations, and politics. He grew up in Bakersfield, California where his father was a Rabbi and his mother, a teacher. He entered Harvard College in the fall of 1960. He left a year before graduating to volunteer with the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project.| www.hks.harvard.edu
