Insights

“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.

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.

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.

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.

Prof. Grzegorz Ekiert of Harvard’s Department of Government will take the reins this summer.

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.