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.
Far from being the sudden product of a late-life religious crisis, Tolstoy’s theory of radical nonviolence stemmed from views that had remained remarkably consistent since the 1860s, writes our 2025 Kathryn W. Davis Prize winner Anya Tseitlin.
According to recent polls, 80% of Russians believe Moscow should mend fences with the U.S., even though 66% also believe that relations with the West will always be based on mistrust, writes Davis Center associate Simon Saradzhyan.
“I wanted to analyze how this pursuit to eliminate Ukrainians as a nation shaped the way Ukrainians remember themselves,” Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed of Harvard's Slavic Department says of her new book about contested memory.
Davis Center associate Andrei Yakovlev and his co-authors argue that — through militarization, purges, and ideological control — Putin's government is constructing a dictatorship that is self-referential and resistant to external influence or internal reform.
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.
