An info-graphic illustrating that trade deals are good for U.S. economic growth, commissioned by Third Way. Third Way is a think tank that answers America’s challenges with modern ideas aimed at the center. They advocate for private-sector economic growth, a tough and smart centrist security strategy, a clean energy revolution, and progress on divisive social […]
Category Archives: Information Design
An Introduction to Pakistan’s Military
An Introduction to Pakistan’s Military, a report authored by Aki Peritz, Francisco Aguilar, Randy Bell, Sayce Falk, Natalie Black and Sasha Rogers on the Pakistan Military. The Pakistani military remains an opaque entity, both inside and outside of the country. Few publicly available reports exist for those seeking a basic understanding of its leaders, functions, […]
Islam and the Bomb: Religious Justification For and Against Nuclear Weapons
Islam and the Bomb: Religious Justification for and Against Nuclear Weapons, a report written by Rolf Mowatt-Larssen a former senior CIA officer and now a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Mowatt-Larssen’s report examines the debate within Muslim societies on the use of weapons of mass destruction. Following a […]
The Case of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
Interrogations, Intelligence and War: The Case of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, by Eric Rosenbach and Jessica Reitz. The case study includes a chronological account of the last ten years of al-Libi’s life, as well as many details of the post-9/11 political context surrounding his detention. This juxtaposition illuminates not only the external factors that drove al-Libi’s […]
Trials by Fire
Trials By Fire, by Eric Rosenbach and Aki Peritz. In the decade following the attacks of 11 September 2001, the United States has attempted to better combat the threat of terrorism through two general mechanisms—by unleashing its fearsome military and intelligence might upon foreign and domestic enemies; and by building upon preexisting legal infrastructure to […]
Al Qaeda Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen spent more than two dozen years in intelligence, both in the CIA and U.S. Department of Energy. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he led the U.S. government’s efforts to determine whether al Qaeda had WMD capabilities and to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States. Mowatt-Larssen, a senior fellow at […]
A.Q. Khan, Nuclear Proliferation and the US Response
Aki Peritz, a former Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, examines A.Q. Khan’s role in spreading Pakistan’s nuclear weapons technology to some of the most unstable countries in the world and the US response to that proliferation network. I had a lot of fun […]
Congress and the Intelligence Community
Confrontation or Collaboration? Congress and the Intelligence Community, by Eric Rosenbach, Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Aki J. Peritz Should the CIA have briefed Congress on secret intelligence programs? What is the legal basis for the President’s electronic surveillance program? Is the DNI actually in charge of the Intelligence Community? The […]