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...
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,...
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 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 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 ArticleRacial 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 ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticlePenslar 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...
View ArticlePiketty’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...
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...
View ArticleThe 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 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...
View ArticleHarvard 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 ArticleIn 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...
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...
View ArticleAs 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 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...
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 ArticleIn 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 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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