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.
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 analyzes developments in Central Asia'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.
Are you a graduate student writing about Central Asia? Submit your application for the Davis Center Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia by Jan. 31, 2025!
Three REECA students get to embed with Davis Center program teams for a year of mutually fruitful collaboration on topics as diverse as AI literacy, diaspora politics, and green energy.
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.
