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Political scientist Masha Hedberg undertakes a comprehensive review of 25 proposals for peace in Ukraine. Weighing the trade-offs, she finds “an incremental approach may offer the most workable path forward.”
Bringing educational backgrounds ranging from philology to security studies and experience in the military, journalism, and think tanks, the REECA class of 2026 has come to campus!
Join us this fall as journalist and political scientist Yevgenia Albats brings her signature style to conversations with top academics and analysts, probing Russia's impact on international peace and stability.
With photos from Ukraine among its highlights, Harvard’s four-day summer workshop gives teachers tools to engage students’ imagination, analytical skills, and sense of justice.
The bitter foes seem close to a peace deal, our alum Joshua Kucera reports, but Baku insists Yerevan strip away a constitutional reference to "reunification" with Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory at the heart of their decades-old conflict.
After the 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia, our Cold War Studies director Mark Kramer explores the changing nature of such East-West trades over the decades, including the stark contrast between those whom Russia released and those it welcomed home, as well as the "moral hazard" this entails for the West.
“There is still a lingering stigma associated with socialism due to the Soviet experience,” a youth organizer told Ričards Umbraško, a Harvard student who spent the summer researching and writing in Georgia.
Olympic games have often served as the backdrop for big foreign policy moves in Russia, including a previous high-profile prisoner release, Cris Martin writes for The Boston Globe.
