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.
With sweeping changes made to toponyms from 1991 to 2015, diplomats were “working in a country in which we did not know where things were,” retired U.S. Ambassador Allan Mustard writes for our Central Asia program.
Former U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan describes navigating the fine line between aiding Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression and averting nuclear catastrophe. Our REECA students report.
The professor of Armenian studies and Davis Center Executive Committee member has been honored for excellence in undergraduate teaching, including the use of images to promote her students’ curiosity.
How Moscow reacts if the U.S. walks away from the conflict entirely is now the most important question, particularly for Europe, says Davis Center alumna and former national security official Fiona Hill.
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.
In our Kyiv Connection series, 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.
