Insights

Security guarantees short of NATO membership “can neither ensure a ceasefire nor prevent a second war,” says Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's former foreign minister, now a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center.

The collapse of the regime in Damascus weakens Moscow's geopolitical position in the Middle East and beyond, as well as posing risks to Russia's reputation and, possibly, its security, writes Davis Center associate Simon Saradzhyan.

Former supporters of the ruling party have begun to peel away, writes Prof. Stephen Jones, leaving an autocratic government — that two weeks ago seemed stable — suddenly on the brink of collapse.

The man likely to occupy America’s top diplomatic post has consistently wanted to punish Russia for its aggression in Ukraine but has come to believe that a negotiated settlement between Moscow and Kyiv is the only realistic way to end the war.

A petrostate accused of greenwashing and human rights violations is hosting an international climate conference with hopes that it will improve its international reputation, alum Joshua Kucera writes.

Stephen Jones argues that Georgia’s elections expose the weaknesses of its democratic system and the ruling party's affinity for right-wing populists in Europe.

With a race for parliament coming up next spring, Russian interference in the country’s politics won’t end soon. Alumna Isabelle DeSisto and her Princeton colleague Grigore Pop-Eleches explain.

Long-time Davis Center associate Nicholas Daniloff, a journalist held captive by the KGB in 1986, is remembered by friend and colleague Mark Kramer, director of our Cold War Studies program.

The country’s illiberal ruling party won a narrow victory — enough to maintain power but not to make good on its extreme promise of banning opposition parties, writes our alum Joshua Kucera.