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.
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 Project.
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.
Scholars gather at Harvard to explore the work, life, and impact of Georgian-born avant-garde icon Ilya Zdanevich. Famed for his book collaborations with the likes of Picasso and Miro, “Iliazd” wore many hats in his artistic life — designer for Coco Chanel among them.
During the U.N.’s annual convention on climate change in Baku next month, democracy’s defenders can hold the Azerbaijani regime accountable for its human rights violations, argues Davis Center alum Mike Smeltzer.
The Russo-Ukrainian war has brought about major geopolitical shifts and, with them, a crop of competing reform proposals across the former Soviet Union. A new Davis Center research initiative sets out to assess them.
Azerbaijan is trying to rebuild and resettle the territories it has retaken, alum Joshua Kucera writes — moving fastest in Karabakh, where infrastructure remains largely intact, but sweeping away signs of the enclave's Armenian legacy as it goes.
We’re delighted to welcome scholars from around the world to our campus community. Meet the in-residence visitors who will be joining the Davis Center this academic year.
