Join Harvard's Davis Center for a talk with Paul Arthur Berkman, director of the Science Diplomacy Center at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, on common-interest building between Russia and the United States.

Berkman argues that despite their animosities in nearly every sphere, throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union cooperated in Antarctica as well as in outer space.  What is special about these regions with their lessons about balancing national interests and common interests for the benefit of all on Earth across generations?  How is the Arctic today a productive application of common-interest building?  Berkman will share observations from convening the first formal dialogue between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russian Federation in 2010 in light of productive collaborations across Russia ever since, especially with MGIMO University and in five Arctic meetings with Vladimir Putin. Science diplomacy and its engine of informed decision-making will be threaded throughout this presentation, accelerating with applications among foreign ministries around the world and with training through the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.

Speaker:

Paul Arthur Berkman, director, Science Diplomacy Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University