CES announces student grant recipients
Continuing its tradition of promoting and funding student research on Europe, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its selection of nearly 50 undergraduates for thesis...
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CES awards travel grants for 2010-11
The Center for European Studies (CES) recently announced its 2010-11 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic,...
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Innovations from southern Europe
While traveling in South America after college, Gabriel Paquette became intrigued by old buildings, churches, and other remnants of the continent’s colonial past. “I was very interested in the...
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Germany, again a linchpin
European debt problems have ripple effects far beyond the continent and are really concerns affecting modern industrial societies that cannot afford all that their citizens want, a Harvard authority...
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A firm voice on Europe
Jan Fischer, former prime minister of the Czech Republic and the leading candidate in the country’s presidential campaign, in a Harvard talk on Thursday blamed the European financial crisis on nations...
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Hope for continental recovery, in 2013
After years of austerity measures and financial reforms aimed at unhealthy economies and national debt levels, a top European official on Tuesday cited hopeful signs that a “slow and subdued” European...
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How to build a nation
Building a new nation can only be done from within, one of America’s top political intellectuals said Thursday, a reality that he said explains the bloody obstacles the United States has encountered...
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Positioned against protectionism
A top European Union (EU) official rejected a return to protectionist trade policies to shelter struggling European companies during tough economic times, calling instead for increased economic...
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German central banker sees walls in need of mending
Central banks should focus more on fighting inflation and less on bailing out struggling governments and lagging economies, the head of Germany’s central bank said Monday during a talk at the Minda de...
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Evil in the making
What makes an armed man kill an unarmed civilian? What makes him join the killing of many hundreds — or hundreds of thousands — of civilians? University of Amsterdam Professor of Social Science...
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Explaining ‘Capital’
It’s been just a year since Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” turned the respected French economist from the University of Paris into an academic and publishing rock star. Few...
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Understanding Turkey
Turkey appears to be moving away from the path toward reforms that helped fuel an economic resurgence there in the early 2000s, a leading economist told a Harvard audience on Monday. Daron Acemoğlu, a...
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Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard professor and scholar, 86
Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, died in Cambridge on Sept. 13 after a long illness. He was 86. The author of 19 books and...
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South Asia Institute hosts exhibit for Nepal
Harvard’s South Asia Institute (SAI) is hosting an exhibit and fundraiser to help the country of Nepal and its people rebuild after the devastating earthquake of April 25. Thousands of Nepalese...
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Engaging with Arendt
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, the Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium, and the Center for Jewish Studies will hold four...
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International Committee of the Red Cross president honored
Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will receive the inaugural Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award on Tuesday. Maurer will accept the award at a dinner...
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Terror threat on mind of Italian PM
In the first visit of a sitting Italian prime minister to Harvard, Matteo Renzi — who became Italy’s leader in February 2014 — addressed recent acts of terrorism in Europe, declaring, “The attack on...
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Stanley Hoffmann, 86
Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus, died at age 86 after a long illness, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 13, 2015. As the preeminent American...
View ArticleConfronting the refugee crisis
Third in an occasional series on Harvard’s wide-ranging programs, research, and involvement in Europe. BERLIN — One minute, Donia Mehu was standing in her kitchen, cooking and puttering. The next she...
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‘Desperate but not hopeless times’
The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president could add to the turbulence Europe is already experiencing from its persistent debt crisis, the rise of nationalist political parties, and Britain’s...
View ArticleIt can’t happen here, probably
Fascism is not taking root in the United States as it did in Europe’s fertile ground in the 1930s, but the ascendance of President Donald Trump and the early actions of his administration may move the...
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In Europe, nationalism rising
Over the past 75 years, many Western nations moved steadily toward cooperation and interconnectedness, as their shared economic and political interests converged during this period called...
View ArticleExpatriates from Berlin, Istanbul who live in each other’s cities offer...
As Europe copes with its largest flood of migrants since World War II, the modern history of German refugees taking refuge in Istanbul and of Turks in Berlin offers unique insights that could help...
View ArticleJourney of Harvard College polyglot started with two words
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Eni Dervishi ’17 has always been intrigued by language. “When I was in kindergarten, a teacher taught us how to say...
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As Europe’s economic picture brightens, Harvard summit sees work ahead
A slow but robust economic recovery is well underway in Europe, but the European Union now faces serious new threats from both within and without, foreign policy experts warned at the daylong 2017...
View ArticleIn a migrants’ limbo, she found a way to help them and focus her ambitions
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. The split-second pause Margot Mai ’18 took before deciding to let her cellphone go to voicemail wasn’t just the...
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In interview, Harvard fellow suggests new thinking for Germany
As the former vice chancellor of Germany and minister of foreign affairs in the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Sigmar Gabriel is in a unique position to comment on current conditions...
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Harvard author: ‘A dangerous moment in our country’s history’
The international best-seller “How Democracies Die” was recently awarded the Goldsmith Book Prize (trade-press category) by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public...
View ArticleHarvard grad parses political dichotomy of Hungary’s youth
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Sara Bobok ’19 has always been of two worlds, at home in both and neither. Born near Budapest, Hungary, she moved to...
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The deep connections between Harvard and Germany
In 1971, Guido Goldman, founding director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), walked into a meeting with West Germany’s then-finance minister, Alex Möller, hoping for a gift to...
View ArticleNew Athens mayor wants to rebuild the city
When Kostas Bakoyannis, M.P.P. ’04, was elected mayor of Greece’s capital city with a hefty 65 percent of the vote last May, he went to the people — appropriately enough, in the birthplace of democracy...
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Piketty’s new book explores how economic inequality is perpetuated
As the gulf between the haves and the have nots continues to widen, the roiling debate over economic inequality has become a political prime mover in the U.S. and across Europe. French economist Thomas...
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Penslar weighs the impact of Herzl’s personal power
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, has long studied modern Jewish history from a global perspective. In his new biography of Theodor Herzl, Penslar...
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What happens after a pandemic — or a war — is over?
The fight against COVID-19 has been equated to a war by some political leaders. While the analogy is appealing, Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University...
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Racial awareness and reassessing public art in Europe
Who owns the public space, and who should be represented within it — and how? The questions have relevance within and beyond America’s borders, and they are at the forefront of movements to remove or...
View ArticleEuropean activists discuss ways legislation can battle racism
The murder of George Floyd last May by white police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis triggered a series of protests and a reckoning on race that spread across the nation and renewed discussions...
View ArticleLink between Ukraine fighting, fossil fuels
The war in Ukraine may not appear to be a direct consequence of climate change, but it is fueled by oil and natural gas. That was the message on Monday, as climate activists and co-founders of...
View ArticleUkraine war testing Irish neutrality
The war in Ukraine has tested the entire European Union, but it has raised particular challenges for Ireland, which has remained officially neutral in military conflicts since the 1930s. On Friday,...
View ArticleSurveying global damage rippling off Ukraine war
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a massive humanitarian crisis for that country’s people, but its impact is being felt globally as well, said Andrej Plenković, prime minister of Croatia,...
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Maya Jasanoff in conversation with novelist Nadifa Mohamed
As a young child, historian Maya Jasanoff followed her parents on trips to historic sites around the world. In India, where her mother is from originally, she spotted street signs referencing...
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