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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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Elaine Papoulias named executive director of CES
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is very pleased to announce that Elaine Papoulias has been selected as its new executive director. Papoulias is the former director of the Kokkalis...
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Center for European Studies welcomes spring fellows
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) is pleased to welcome 17 fellows as part of their Visiting Scholars Program during the 2013 spring semester. Every year, CES is pleased to host a...
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Harvard conference brings Roma rights to light
The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard organized a conference on Monday, April 8, that brought to light many of the challenges facing the Roma in Europe....
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How (do) Europeans make democracy work?
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) was honored to host an essay contest on Europe with the students in Professor Muriel Rouyer’s class at the Harvard Kennedy School, “Global...
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CES receives gift to establish the Özyeğin Forum on Modern Turkey
Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) today announced a gift by the family of Hüsnü Özyeğin, a leading Turkish entrepreneur, highly esteemed philanthropist, and HBS...
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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...
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Confronting 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...
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It 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...
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