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.

Sarah Ramberran, a junior at Harvard college and an intern at Civil.ge, explores the intersection of educational institution opportunities and South Asian identity.

Russian propaganda narratives about vaccines differ structurally by target audience, offering clarity to friends and confusion to foes, writes Katrina Keegan.

How can the United States deter a future Russian invasion against another neighbor?

“Twilight diplomats” tend to make or break international negotiations, despite rarely garnering the acclaim of their more public-facing counterparts, write members of the Negotiation Task Force.

Democracy relies on a language of compromise and mediation; Georgia’s political elite, however, is fixated on “traitors” and “enemies,” writes Stephen Jones.

The Belavezha Accords, often overlooked in the history of the dissolution of the USSR, largely defy accepted narratives about the collapse, writes Yelena Biberman.

Educators gathered on the Harvard campus to synthesize lessons from the yearlong Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship.

At Commencement, graduates share memories, reflect on the region, and offer advice to future students of regional studies.

First woman to serve as Center’s faculty director will lead from July 2022.