Writing. Convening. Teaching. Training. Modeling. Experimenting. Engaging. Across time zones and international boundaries, members of our community are at work. Our “Insights” gallery is a multimedia guide to intellectual life at the Davis Center.
Despite White House attempts to work more closely with the Kremlin, the newly released Worldwide Threat Assessment reaffirms that Russia remains a formidable adversary of the U.S., willing to pay a "very high price" to prevail in Ukraine. Davis Center associate Simon Saradzhyan extracts Russia-related nuggets from WTA-2025.
Former U.S. national security official Richard D. Hooker, Jr., now at Harvard’s Belfer Center, discusses Europe’s options for boosting military readiness as Washington warms up to Moscow.
Professors Serhii Plokhii of Harvard and Christopher Miller of Tufts reflect on the current war in terms of historical continuities and change — from technologies to global economy.
Harvard history Ph.D. student Yevhenii Monastyrskyi, in residence at the Davis Center in 2023-2025, leverages his skills as a scholar for the sovereignty and security of his native Ukraine.
Political scientist Nargis Kassenova, director of our Program on Central Asia, analyzes developments in the region's richest country for the Atlantic Council, outlining three scenarios for Kazakhstan's path forward.
One year ago this week, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navanly died, at age 47, under murky circumstances in a prison in the Russian Arctic. His friend Yevgenia Albats, a Davis Center visiting scholar, pays tribute to his life and work.
As global powers vie for indispensable minerals in Central Asia, the region's governments must figure out how to drive growth without causing long-term damage to their economies, environment, and societies, argues REECA alum Aruzhan Meirkhanova.
Georgia scholar Stephen Jones examines the high-stakes political landscape in the country and mulls three scenarios in the ongoing contest between opposition-minded citizens and the ruling Georgian Dream party.
Mark Kramer, director of our Cold War Studies program, remembers Loren Graham. The MIT professor, who died Dec. 15, was one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of science and technology in Russia and the USSR and a long-time Davis Center associate.
