Brenda Shaffer joined Ashton Carter, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and nonproliferation expert Henry Sokolski for a forum on the Iranian nuclear challenge, hosted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics. The event was part of the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum series, held at the Harvard Kennedy School. Brenda brought her expertise on Iran and regional energy politics to a panel focused on the strategic risks posed by Iran’s nuclear program.
The discussion examined the security implications of Iranian nuclear development for the region and for U.S. policy, drawing an audience of Harvard students, faculty, and the broader policy community that regularly attends the Forum’s programming. The pairing of a former Pentagon official with nonproliferation and regional specialists gave the conversation both a defense-policy and an area-studies lens.