Harvard Club of New Hampshire Annual Meeting
September 15th at Manchester Country Club
Please join us for our annual meeting from 12 noon to 3 pm on Sunday, September 15, 2024, at the Manchester Country Club in Bedford, NH. There will be a reception (cash bar, with one complimentary drink ticket for beer, wine or soft drink provided to each attendee by the Club), followed by a delicious buffet luncheon. Following a brief business meeting, our speaker will be Jeffrey A. Friedman, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, speaking on “Foreign Policy, Presidential Elections, and the 2024 Campaign.”
Jeffrey Friedman is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, where he studies the psychology of politics and the psychology of foreign policy decision-making and directs the John Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security.
He is the author of The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in U.S. Foreign Policy (Cornell, 2023), which examines how voters determine which leaders are “fit to be commander-in-chief” and shows that these debates steer U.S. foreign policy in a direction that is more hawkish than what voters want.
He also wrote War and Chance: Assessing Uncertainty in International Politics (Oxford, 2019), which explains how foreign policy-makers systematically avoid assessing the uncertainty that surrounds strategic decisions and demonstrates that this practice reflects widespread misconceptions about the logic, psychology, and politics of probabilistic reasoning.
Professor Friedman received his Ph.D from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2013. He has held fellowships at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Tobin Project, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France.
The cost for the event will be $35 per individual or $60 per couple. Stay tuned for more details. Registration for this event will start in August.
We look forward to seeing many of you at Manchester Country Club on September 15th!