Insights

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.

Strategic communications expert delves into the difficulty of addressing nuclear risk reduction among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Small states are no longer helpless entities without agency—they have a whole box of tools at their disposal, says Stephen Jones, Director of the Program on Georgian Studies.

A new paper by Craig Kennedy proposes ways to enhance the economic impact of oil sanctions while mitigating their harmful effects on the world economy.

Open doors, however difficult to accept, have facilitated progress that was previously inconceivable, writes NTF Fellow Danny Stoian.

Russia’s refusal to undertake an honest reckoning with the myriad atrocities committed by the Soviet Union laid fertile grounds for this attack, write Jeremy Friedman and Ingrid Burke Friedman.

A Western boycott of the Arctic Council could backfire, writes Ingrid Burke Friedman in Foreign Policy.

Alexandra Vacroux speaks with the Harvard Gazette about developments in Ukraine.

Western allies should announce that President Zelensky has been empowered to dial back or even withdraw elements of the unprecedented sanctions on Russia, write Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux.

A new book by Tinatin Japaridze explores Stalin and his legacy through the lens of the post-Soviet generation.