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Harvard Undergrads Explore Georgia

Each summer two students immerse themselves in the country through transformative eight-week internships. In 2023, they wrote about civic activism and NATO ties, while traveling from capital to coast to mountains.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Law and Justice (PiS) ruling party, gives a speech during a final convention of elections campaign in Krakow, Poland on October 11, 2023.

Polish Democracy at a Crossroads

With voters taking part in what could be the most consequential election in Poland’s modern history, Davis Center alum Mike Smeltzer explains the swift decline of democracy under the Law and Justice Party.

Armed men believed to be Russian soldiers in Perevalne, Crimea, March 2014

Putin Helped Create the ‘Anti-Russian Ukraine’ He Feared

Had Moscow not used aggression, Ukrainian politics would have likely stayed divided between supporters of a pro-Western course and of closer ties with Russia, writes Tufts professor and Davis Center associate Oxana Shevel.

Undoing Empire, One Plant at a Time

The Davis Center's Imperiia team is working with the Harvard Map Collection to study biodiversity and show why metadata is a scholar's best friend.

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The present-day Davis Center fosters understanding through dialogue, research, and scholarly exchange. Although geopolitical harmony has eluded us for many decades, we have always hoped for and promoted peaceful mutual understanding. Simmering violence in eastern Ukraine and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world has been alarming for years, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a definitive change in the political trajectory of the region.

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