“I use ‘disruptive’ in both its good and bad connotations. Disruptive scientific and technological progress is not to me inherently good or inherently evil. But its arc is for us to shape. Technology’s progress is furthermore in my judgment unstoppable. But it is quite incorrect that it unfolds inexorably according to its own internal logic and the laws of nature.”
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- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Faculty Chair, Future of Diplomacy Project
- Faculty Chair, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Director, American Secretaries of State Project
- Conflict & Conflict Resolution
- Governance
- Intrastate conflict
- Rogue/Repressive States
- International cooperation
- Educating policymakers
- European studies
- Intelligence in policymaking
- Middle East policy
- Globalization
- Sanctions
- U.S. foreign policy
- U.S. primacy
- United Nations
- International Security & Defense
- Afghanistan war
- Democracy
- Military intervention
- NATO
- Negotiation
- Preventive defense
- Security Strategy
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Nuclear Issues
- India nuclear program
- Iran nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear weapons
- Russia nuclear program
- U.S. nuclear issues
Nicholas Burns
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