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.
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 program.
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.
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!
