On the one-year anniversary of Guido Goldman’s passing, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) remembers its co-founding director with a preview of his recently published biography, Guido Goldman: Transatlantic Bridge Builder (Berghahn Books, 2021), and an interview with author Martin Klingst.
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Harvard’s Maya Jasanoff, chair of Booker Prize panel, offers a peek behind verdict What’s it like to read a book every day for several months so you can hash out with ...
Depuis au moins le début de ce siècle, on constate une restructuration des systèmes politiques en Europe. En Italie, ce processus a même commencé avant puisqu’il remonte au début des années 1990 ...
In 1848, the Austrian Empire was ruled by the absolutist equivalent of a lame-duck emperor. In March, a peaceful demand for civil rights escalated into a full-fledged revolution. The emperor and his ...
Soccer star Marko Arnautović made headlines last week, less for the goal he scored in the 89th minute of his native Austria’s European Cup game against North Macedonia than for his post-goal ...
This article examines Polish-Soviet, and subsequently Polish–Russian, relations through the lens of successive bilateral efforts to address “blank spots” in the shared history of these two neighbors. Considered are the different institutional ...
On December 15, 1991, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker arrived in Moscow amid political chaos to meet with Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, who was at the time busy wresting power from ...
This year, CES will host a hybrid Visiting Scholars Program which will include five resident John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellows and seven non-resident Visiting Scholars during the fall. Find out more about our visiting scholars from their profiles.
By Hansong Li and Yifei Wu
The distribution of healthcare resources across local and global communities has triggered alarms throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Injustice and inefficiency in the transfer of lifesaving medical supplies are magnified by the urgency of the public health crisis, ramified through pre-existing socioeconomic tensions, and further aggravated by frictions that plague international cooperation and global governance.
We are excited to welcome back faculty and students to resume in-person classes in Adolphus Busch Hall this week. It is an important step toward a return to normalcy and has been made possible by the full effort of the entire community.
Christiane Taubira and Aminata Touré detail efforts in their nations to combat racism in a seminar led by CES Resident Faculty Mary D. Lewis.
Growing up in New Orleans, Kelly Brignac was immersed in customs that had deep roots in French culture. One of the most meaningful to her was the King Cake — a traditional dessert associated with the Christian holiday of Epiphany, but also served on special occasions. At one such event, Brignac got a slice that contained a baby figurine representing the Christ child — a symbol of luck and prosperity.
How Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff has pursued the humanities—and how you can, too
Chinaza Asiegbu (History, Secondary in African Studies and French Citation, 2022) received a Summer Internship Grant from CES in 2020 to conduct a virtual internship at the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris. She also participated in the Europe in Washington Workshop on Democracy and Transatlantic Relations, made possible by a generous grant from Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (AB ’81) who currently serves as White House Homeland Security Adviser.
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution, CES Faculty Associate Panagiotis Roilos gave a paper on Harvard and the Greek Revolution at the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Modern Greek Studies.
CES is pleased to announce that George Soroka (Ph.D. ’14) is the new editor of the Open Forum Working Paper Series.
A review of the biography of Guido Goldman "Amerikas Mr. Germany" by Martin Klingst.
The seminar — titled “Populism After Trump” — featured Johns Hopkins University Senior Fellow of International Affairs Anne Applebaum and Harvard Government professors Steven R. Levitsky and Daniel F. Ziblatt. Government professor Grzegorz Ekiert, the director of CES, moderated the event, which drew more than 400 attendees.
Capturing the exotic creatures that grace Harvard’s buildings, gates, and shields
At Harvard and elsewhere, philhellenes celebrate Greek independence.
Ever since he was a teen growing up in the Italian Alps, Francesco Rolando ’21 dreamed of a career in medicine. But in four years, his vision of what that might mean has changed.
Rolando still aspires to become a practicing physician. But, inspired by a first-year human rights seminar and later a thesis project that exposed him to migrants in an Italian medical clinic, he now also wants to help remove barriers to health care, especially for marginalized populations.
“I’m very interested in how medicine is dispensed and the inequalities in the way that we deliver health care,” said Rolando. He hopes to pursue those questions through research and advocacy in medical anthropology.
Through close, creative readings of Benjamin, Horkheimer, and Adorno, CES Resident Faculty Peter Gordon’s latest book Migrants in the Profane (Yale University Press, 2020) pursues these thinkers’ relationship to religious concepts and secularization, along with broader questions about their epoch and ours. “Does secularization mean the disappearance of religion or its transformation?” he asks in the book’s introduction. “In the modern era can religious concepts survive or are they irrevocably lost? Can religious concepts retain both their relevance and their validity in a secular age, or is the dissolution of religion a philosophical and political necessity if we are to think of ourselves as truly modern?”
In this interview, Gordon speaks about these thinkers’ varied attempts to reckon with religion and secularization and the relationship between theology and social critique.
What drives recent changes in the landscape of foreign direct investments (FDI) in Western Balkan states and what are the socioeconomic implications of such changes? The emerging economies of the Western Balkan countries (WB6) of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, North Macedonia (NM), Kosovo, and Serbia have much to benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI).
A discussion of populism in the USA and in Europe, how former US president Donald Trump gained the respect from white working class voters and why academics should do more to engage in political and public debates.
Peter E. Gordon questions what really caused the anti-democratic assault on the Capitol and whether we should call the President a fascist.
The most important book of the Trump era was not Bob Woodward’s “Fear” or Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” or any of the other bestselling exposes of the White House circus. Arguably it was a wonkish tome by two Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, published a year into Donald Trump’s presidency and entitled “How Democracies Die”.
We sat down with Anna Popiel to talk about her upcoming retirement and her 36 years behind the reception desk at CES. Starting at Bryant Street with cramped working conditions and a typewriter, Anna has seen the Center grow and change. For many, she has become the heart of Adolphus Busch Hall and in many ways she represents ‘where Harvard and Europe meet.’
Guido Goldman lived a full life and has left an enduring legacy. His contributions to transatlantic relations and scholarship will be forever immortalized in the institutions he helped created and partnerships he forged. Below are the obituaries which outline and honor his extraordinary life.
In their 30-year collegial relationship, what Professor Charles S. Maier ’60 remembers most about Guido G. Goldman ’59 is his “magic sense of connectivity” — a connectivity that stretched from personal relationships to trans-Atlantic partnerships.
Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century. Do we still know how to read him?
Author Conversations Series, Fall 2020. Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center
It is with sadness that we share the news that Guido Goldman, Co-Founding Director of CES, died on November 30, 2020 at the age of 83. Goldman, who had a brilliant mind, was a visionary Europeanist who left an indelible mark on Harvard, the field of European studies, and the partnership between Germany and the United States.
Markovits Honored with Festschrift
Andrei S. Markovits, a long-time friend of CES and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, was honored with a Festschrift in Germany.
On a cloud-spackled Sunday last June, protesters in Bristol, England, gathered at a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader on whose watch more than eighty thousand Africans were trafficked across the Atlantic. “Pull it down!” the crowd chanted, as people yanked on a rope around the statue’s neck. A few tugs, and the figure clanged off its pedestal. A panel of its coat skirt cracked off to expose a hollow buttock as the demonstrators rolled the statue toward the harbor, a few hundred yards away, and then tipped it headlong into the water.
The last time President of the Deutsche Bundesbank Jens Weidmann spoke at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), the economic landscape was fundamentally different. Returning almost seven years later, he addressed the consequences of a global pandemic, a joint shock to demand and supply, and the short-term as well as possibly longer run ramifications.
On Wednesday, Ana Lucia Araujo, professor of history at Howard University, and Mame-Fatou iang, associate professor of French and francophone studies at Carnegie Mellon University, discussed both the history and the way forward during “Race and Remembrance in Contemporary Europe,” presented by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).
The Trump presidency has brought American democracy to the breaking point. The president has encouraged violent extremists; deployed law enforcement and other public institutions as weapons against rivals; and undermined the integrity of elections through false claims of fraud, attacks on mail-in voting and an apparent unwillingness to accept defeat.
Howard University history professor Ana Lucia Araujo and Carnegie Mellon French professor Mame-Fatou Niang discussed recent debates regarding the removal of statues that depict slave traders and owners in Europe at an event Wednesday afternoon.
Hans-Helmut Kotz comments on the German Wirecard scandal.
They fear that if they stick to the rules, they will lose everything. Their behavior is a threat to democratic stability.
Would anything about this strange moment have surprised H.G. Wells? He was called “the man who invented tomorrow” because he seemed to have the future figured out.
Maya Jasanoff Reviews, Sarah Cole's new book: Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
Between 1814 and 1831, French slave traders trafficked approximately 200,000 individuals. Among those, a small but still surprising number stopped over in Haiti on their return voyage after selling captives elsewhere in the Americas.
Surely there are more direct routes to becoming a respected French-language translator than going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a Ph.D. in mathematics, getting caught up in the Vietnam draft, and then ditching a teaching career and moving to France. But for Arthur Goldhammer, it was a circuitous path that made perfect sense.
An interview with Derek Penslar about his upcoming book “Zionism: An Emotional State.”
Published in Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur, #4, 2020, pp.46-47. (In German)
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Can President Trump's appeal to ethnonationalism succeed in the 2020 elections? Two research studies by CES faculty Peter Hall and former affiliates Noam Gidron and Moritz Schularick are cited in this opinion piece by Thomas Edsall, The New York Times.
CES Affiliate Rosemary Taylor delves into comparisons of Covid-19 with other major diseases in world history, from the Spanish Flu to SARS. She notes that history often fails to teach leaders and experts the “lessons” we might expect. She notes that new popular understandings about diseases (such as animal-human transition) have led to complicated policy responses with mixed results. While history may not always clearly tell us what to do, it can warn us.
The CES community continues to grow and add new, exciting members to its community.
Four graduate students from Harvard University were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship and thirteen graduate students from Harvard and MIT were the recipients of Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowships from CES this year.
Nurturing interest in Europe among Harvard College students is central to the CES mission. Despite pandemic-related travel restrictions, CES is pleased to support 34 students to intellectually engage with Europe via virtual internships and senior thesis research this summer. CES congratulates these students and highlights their diverse interests and projects in the videos and links below.
Max Goplerud received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University in 2020. At CES, he was a Graduate Student Affiliate and Co-chair of the Seminar on Populism. CES spoke to him about finalizing his dissertation during the pandemic and his plans for the future.
In her new book, How It All Vegan, Nina Gheihman aims to educate, but also illustrate veganism’s incredible development over time. “Whether you agree with it or not, I think vegan entrepreneurs have really affected the popular culture and are shifting us towards a more plant-based diet. And I wanted to tell their story.”
Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor argue that the coronavirus crisis has inflamed cleavages in democratic societies which will be difficult to heal.
Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation professor of European studies at Harvard University and the editor with Michèle Lamont of Successful Societies and Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era. Rosemary CR Taylor is associate professor of sociology and community health at Tufts University and has written widely on epidemics, past and present.
Harvard experts talk about how to turn the moment’s energy into lasting change
The short- and long-term effects of the pandemic on immigrant workers depend on policies which vary substantially across western-European countries.
Nathan Grau, CES Graduate Student Affiliate and History Seminar Coordinator, is mentioned in this profile of graduate students whose research has been impacted by the pandemic.
Art Goldhammer, CES Local Affiliate, comments on the COVID rescue plans put forth by European leaders.
Pablo Rasmussen (Government, European History, Politics and Societies) reflects on how his journey from Mexico City to Oklahoma and internships in Belgrade and Brussels have made him a rugged internationalist. He spoke to CES on the eve of his graduation from Harvard College.
On the centenary of Max Weber’s death, Peter E. Gordon, CES Resident Faculty, reflects on the German sociologist's legacy and significance with a review of his newly translated vocation lectures published in “Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures” by The New York Review of Books
De retour sur la scène politique, l’ancien chef de la diplomatie polonaise plaide en faveur d’un « grand compromis » entre Paris et Berlin pour renforcer l’Union européenn.
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These are difficult days for political commentators. Politics-as-usual has given way to quarrels over the Covid-19 response. Commentators can choose one of two courses: concentrate on the errors, inevitably plentiful and satisfyingly ...
Bart Bonikowski, CES Resident Faculty, comments that trends toward greater polarization of nationalism are likely to persist.
Anna Grzymała-Busse, CES Senior Fellow, gives an analysis of Poland's political crisis over the presidential elections.
The fight against COVID-19 has been equated to a war by some political leaders. Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University and CES Resident Faculty, and Ian Kumekawa, Ph.D. Candidate in History at Harvard University and a CES Graduate Student Affiliate, weighed in on the argument.
CES Director, Grzegorz Ekiert discussing the end of the Polish democracy and if it’s possible to get it back in a conversation about boycotting the upcoming presidential elections and the government distorting democracy.
Pablo Rasmussen, CES EHPS Concentrator and Harvard College Senior, examine's the EU's role in the crisis on the 25th anniversary of the Schengen Agreement.
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, CES Visiting Scholar, argues that COVID-19 cooperation falls short, when nations put themselves first.
Sigmar Gabriel, CES Senior Fellow & John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow,
CES Senior Fellow, argues in this podcast that the plight of women during the pandemic needs to be recognized.
"We are all existentialists now, knowing only that we must try to carry on," says Arthur Goldhammer.
France has announced a carefully phased plan for easing the severe restrictions imposed in mid-March. The strategy is far more coherent, cautious, and realistic than the miraculous ‘reopening’ envisioned by U.S. authorities ...
Karen Donfried, CES Senior Fellow, discusses German-U.S. relations during the coronavirus crisis.
CES Resident Faculty, Peter Hall and Bart Bonikowski, provide insights into the creation of a new working class and how the outbreak can lead to a rise in populism.
CES Local Affiliate, shares a perspective on inequality and the uneven impact of the pandemic across the U.S.
As the coronavirus brings out the best and worst in countries in Southeast Europe, the democratic health of the region is at stake, says CES Visiting Scholar Albana Shehaj.
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, has long studied modern Jewish history from a global perspective. In his new biography of Theodor Herzl, Penslar, resident faculty ...
Harvard will begin transitioning to virtual instruction for graduate and undergraduate classes. Our goal is to have this transition complete by Monday, March 23, the first day of scheduled classes following Spring Recess.
As the gulf between the haves and the have nots continues to widen, the roiling debate over economic inequality has become a political prime mover in the U.S. and across Europe. French ...
Some U.S. government moves to halt China’s technology theft could cause significant brain drain and hurt the scientific community, argue Peter A. Hall & Yeling Tan.
Demokratien können nur überleben, wenn man von der Macht fernhält, wer sie bedroht. In Erfurt geschah das Gegenteil. Das weckt Erinnerungen an den Aufstieg der NSDAP.
The new mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, M.P.A. ’04, wants to rebuild the capital from the ground up. He spoke to CES Executive Director Elaine Papoulias about his plans and challenges.
In this article, Peter E. Gordon assesses what it means when scholars entertain analogies between different events, and how it is possible to compare events that occurred in widely different circumstances?
"To survive, democracy requires at least two democratic political parties. We currently only have one. If this doesn’t change, our growing democratic disorder risks mutating into an even more extreme form," comments Daniel Ziblatt in a Harvard Gazette article on what impeachment may mean for the presidency and the future of American democracy.
Any geopolitical order based on cities must depend upon the partial dismantling of the territorial state order and thus of the notion of a unitary sovereignty as it developed from the Renaissance until very recently. Is that really plausible in this day and age? – Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History & CES Resident Faculty
By talking up ethnic nationalism but not delivering, they opened up space for the radical right, say CES Resident Faculty Bart Bonikowski and Daniel Ziblatt in their introduction to a six-part article series commissioned by The Washington Post's Monkey Cage. This series of articles resulted from a 2018 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs conference and was edited by Bonikowski and Ziblatt.
Former Polish leader Walesa points to economic disruption and rise of nationalism in Europe as the U.S. retreats from its global leadership role at the Forum discussion with CES Director Grzegorz Ekiert.
Former French Ambassador to the United States Pierre N. Vimont discussed the future of European foreign policy with diplomats and Harvard affiliates ia conversation hosted by Harvard’s Center for European Studies Friday.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Judy Vichniac on October 22. Judy was a friend and a vital member of our CES community since 1972. One of her enduring legacies at CES is the “Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe,” which she started in the early 1990s during her tenure as acting director of the Center.
With the rise of populist right-wing groups in Europe, gender politics are in play. Increasingly and in what may be viewed as a counter-intuitive move, gender equality, has been taken up as a rallying cause by conservative groups, opening up new questions about the definition of gender and putting gender studies under attack. Kathrin Zippel and Myra Marx Ferree raised these issues in a recent workshop "Troubling Times for Gender Equality Politics."
Recently, CES Director Grzegorz Ekiert gave a lecture, entitled "Civil Society & Democracy – A Reconsideration," to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the election of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first non-Communist prime minister.
When Sergey Lagodinsky, HKS ’03, recently gave the Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany at CES, the newly elected member of the European Parliament broached topics far beyond those of his adopted country to encompass Europe and the world at large. “I wanted to be part of German politics,” he said. “German society and German politics are still not sure what role they want to play in the world.” By running for office, he saw “a chance to be part of it, to join forces in looking for those new roles.”
With the German economy close to recession, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has rightly urged eurozone governments to provide more fiscal stimulus. And acknowledging the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy would leave critics much less room for ECB-bashing, argues Hans-Helmut Kotz in recent piece in Project Syndicate. "In influencing economic activity, fiscal and monetary policy interact inexorably. Their joint impact is mediated through what the great economist James Tobin called a “common funnel”. In the eurozone, however, the policy debate regularly ignores this interaction between one monetary policy and 19 fiscal policies. Acknowledging it, however, would leave critics with much less room for ECB-bashing."
Nobel laureate Martin Karplus ’51 was 23 when he left the U.S. for postdoctoral work at Oxford University in England. Having just completed his doctorate in chemistry at California Institute of Technology ...
Argyro Nicolaou speaks about the treatment of migration in the Mediterranean Sea and her native Cyprus in film, art and literature, and how this research fits with her work for an upcoming exhibit at the MOMA in New York City. "I consider my work one way of using the humanities to respond to politics," says Nicolaou who received a CES Dissertation Research Grant and completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature in 2019.
Peter Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History and CES resident faculty, co-chairs the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History. CES spoke to him about the colloquium, his discipline, and the enduring legacy of Theodor Adorno. (Photo Credit: Jürgen Bauer, 2019.)
Charles Maier the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor and CES resident faculty, retired in May, bringing to a close more than 50 years of teaching at Harvard. We spoke to him about his career at a changing university, what he’ll miss, what he won’t, and what he’s doing next.
In June, 2019, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Theodor W. Adorno's death in 1969, Peter Gordon delivered the Adorno Vorlesungen at the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, on the theme, "Adorno and the Sources of Normativity." The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reviewed Gordon's three-part lecture series. (In German)
At Commencement, German chancellor Angela Merkel urges students ‘to embrace new beginnings.’
Students from Germany, who may barely remember when Angela Merkel wasn't chancellor, share their thoughts as she visits. Karl Oskar Schulz '22, who served as research assistant to Daniel Ziblatt and CES program assistant also shares his perspective.
One day before her Commencement address, members of the CES community, including Resident Faculty Charles Maier and Senior Fellow Sigmar Gabriel, reflect on Chancellor Angela Merkel's contributions as a world leader.
Over more than a century, the connections have spanned everything from curriculum reform to art collections to trans-Atlantic fellowships
Sara Bobok '19 traveled to her native Hungary on a CES Senior Thesis Grant to hear what motivates young people. She won the prestigious Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis, which was guided by CES Director Grzegorz Ekiert and CES Affiliate Nikolas Prevelakis, among others. Featured here as one of Harvard's stellar graduates, read what motivates Sara and what she plans next.
Three CES Senior Thesis Grant Recipients Sara Bobok, Emily Brothers and Julia Fine were awarded the prestigious Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for their outstanding research. These students spent their junior summer in Europe to conduct research for their senior thesis and were nominated by their advisors including Maya Jasanoff, CES Resident Faculty, and Nicolas Prevelakis, CES Local Affiliate.
"The church embodies a civilization, and had it been erased from the earth ... the loss would have been irretrievable," says Art Goldhammer in a moving tribute in The Nation. (Photo Credit: Reuters / Benoit Tessier)
Daniel Ziblatt analyzes the worldwide movement toward autocracy and concludes American democracy is safe — for now
Throughout the 1990s, central and eastern European states expressed their wish to become members of the Western community and its institutions and to guard against a resurgent Russia. Based on newly declassified documents, CES Associate Mary Elise Sarotte explores the history of NATO accession. (Photo Credit: Jeff Taylor/Reuters)
What is the state of Greek democracy since the economic crisis? In this paper, CES Visiting Scholar Dimitri Sotiropoulos assesses the effects of populism and corruption on democracy in Greece today.
Bart Bonikowski discusses his work on nationalism with The Sociocast Project.
To research schools in Germany, Stefan Beljean, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and CES Graduate Student Affiliate, went to the source
This op-ed byDaniel Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky is worth rereading in these extraordinary times. "Crises are a time-tested means of subverting democracy."
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History and CES Resident Faculty, discusses his forthcoming book, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader, an addition to more than 200 biographies of the founder of Zionism.
How the Gilets Jaunes Brought the French President Low
Leaving the EU without consequences was always a fantasy, and the terms of the Brexit agreement reveal the reality, says Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and CES Resident Faculty.
A frank discussion by Sigmar Gabriel, CES John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow this fall, on Germany’s relationship with the United States, the European Union, and China. Germany's former Vice Chancellor spoke to the Harvard Gazette ahead of his public address on November 1 to open the Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany
In an interview with the Polish paper Polityka, Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government and CES Director at Harvard, spoke about political developments in Poland.
Congratulations to Daniel Ziblatt on winning not one but four awards for his groundbreaking book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2017). In August, Ziblatt will be awarded the 2018 Woodrow Wilson award by the American Political Science Association (APSA)– considered the most prestigious award in the U.S. for a political science book. The APSA will also be awarding him two more best book prizes—from the sections of Comparative Democratization and European Politics and Society. Ziblatt also earned the 2018 Barrington Moore Prize for best book in comparative and historical sociology by the American Sociological Association. 2018 has been an amazing year for CES Resident Faculty Ziblatt whose more recent co-authored book (with Steve Levitsky) How Democracies Die hit the New York Times bestseller list.
CES is pleased to announce that H.E. Sigmar Gabriel, Member of the German Bundestag and Vice Chancellor from 2013-2018, will serve as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard this fall.
Congratulations to five CES Senior Thesis Grant Recipients for winning the Hoopes Prize for outstanding research on Europe.
A natural performer and photographer, Benjamin Grimm ’18 fell into Swedish and comparative religion, but the unlikely combination of interests paved the way to a greater understanding of humanity. Grimm, who was awarded a CES senior thesis grant, received a Hoopes Prize for his research.
Margot Mai came to Harvard to pursue medicine but discovered anthropology in her sophomore year. She spent last summer working at a French NGO helping to rehabilitate Nigerian sex workers.
Co-authored by John Ahlquist, Nahomi Ichino, Jason Wittenberg and Daniel ZiblattHow does a democracy collapse? We often envision military coups or corrupt politicians stuffing ballot boxes, sending their opponents to prison and ...
Daniel Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky authors of “How Democracies Die,” believe political polarization has risen dangerously high over race, religion, and culture.
Will France's new Republican Leader Laurent Wauquiez win over dismayed Front National voters and challenge Emmanuel Macron in the 2020 presidential run?
Donald Trump’s contempt for American political institutions is only the latest chapter in a history of opportunistic attacks against them.
The Eurozone crisis has opened fault lines between German economists and policymakers and those in a number of Eurozone (in particular periphery) countries. A new eBook – published as a result of a workshop at CES – explains the historical development of the ordoliberal school of economics and its influence on German policymaking, and contrasting it critically with what we like to call the Anglo-Saxon-Latin pragmatism of economic policymaking.
CES Resident Faculty Maya Jasanoff embraced adventure to explore the mind behind ‘Heart of Darkness’ and other classics for her new book "The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”
Briitta van Staalduinen, CES Graduate Affiliate and a PhD Student in Government, spoke to CES Affiliates Cathy Jo Martin and Vivien Schmidt, on how their teaching of Europe has changed amidst the various crises in Europe.
In a forthcoming paper, Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of Government and CES Resident Faculty and Noam Gidron, CES Affiliate, present the interconnected cultural and economic roots of today’s populist right.
Former and current CES Graduate Student Affiliates discuss the rise of populist movements that could threaten the European Project
In this year’s federal election, Angela Merkel won a fourth term, but the German far-right achieved its strongest showing since World War II.
“Hungary and Poland can no longer be considered liberal democracies. In both countries, the authoritarian institutional system has been established, giving largely unrestricted political power to the ruling party. While they are still not dictatorships, the potential for authoritarian rule increases considerably with every new legislation expanding the power of the government.”
La aceptación de la austeridad convirtió a los gobiernos socialdemócratas en reaccionarios. Ahora, el centro-izquierda debe responder con esperanza al miedo populista. Necesita cambiar el debate y elaborar una narrativa optimista. Un comentario de Sebastián Royo.
For the 2017-2018 academic year, CES is pleased to host 26 Visiting Scholars from 11 countries, including the first recipient of the inaugural German Kennedy Memorial Fellowship for EU Scholars, and three recipients from Germany of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship.
Macron’s election reflects a desire for pragmatic, results-oriented government, says Art Goldhammer in a conversation with the Harvard Gazette.
Inequality in America is on the rise. Income gains since the 1980s have been concentrated at the top. The top 10 percent today take home 30 percent of all income, and control ...
Eni Dervishi’s journey from Albania to Harvard began with two simple words
Harvard Magazine reviews Daniel Ziblatt's new book "Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy."
Experiences of German refugees taking refuge in Istanbul and of Turks in Berlin offers unique insights for policymakers in a conference organized by the CES Özyeğin Forum on Modern Turkey and the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative.
CES joins leading social science institutions to preserve academic freedom in Hungary as the government moves to pass legislation to remove Central European University (CEU). #IstandwithCEU
Will triumphs of Trump and Brexit pave the path to power for Europe's right-leaning parties? CES' Director Grzegorz Ekiert and Resident Faculty Bart Bonikowski share their insight.
Trump doesn't present Jews as a dangerous group the way he describes Muslims or Mexicans. But don't expect him to take vigorous action to identify, shame and punish the perpetrators of anti-Semitic incidents.
Fascism is not taking root in the United States as it did in Europe’s fertile ground in the 1930s, but the ascendance of President Donald Trump and the early actions of his administration may move the United States in an authoritarian direction, a panel of Harvard historians told a a full house at CES.
In the second episode of "The Good Fight," Yascha Mounk lays out the best-case scenario for the Trump years and speaks to Larry Diamond, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, about the global recession of democracy--and how to build the kind of coalition that can beat back authoritarian populists.
French voters have definitively “disconnected” themselves from the past but haven’t yet settled on a future. CES Associate Art Goldhammer speculates on the future of France's Socialist Party.
Charles Maier, CES Resident Faculty, explores the controversial lines that both separate and bind modern societies in his latest book, Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging Since 1500.
(Photo Credit: Michelle Nicholasen, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs)
CES congratulates Nancy Ko '17 who was named one of four Harvard Rhodes Scholars in November. Ko was the recipient of a CES Senior Thesis Grant last year for her thesis entitled "In the Shadows of Change: Jewish Alliances in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-11." (Photo: Kris Snibbe/Harvard Gazette)
Former Prime Minister François Fillon crushes the opposition in the first round of the primary for the presidential nomination of the center-right Republican primary. The winner of the runoff could well become France’s next president—if he can beat Marine Le Pen. A commentary by Art Goldhammer. (Credit: Bernard BISSON/JDD/SIPA/1505311317 - Sipa via AP Images)
A Europe that is showing cracks in its unity now worries about U.S. ties, analysts say at CES Summit on the Future of Europe - Europe and the Forces of Disunion. A insightful summary of the discussions at the day-long event by the Harvard Gazette.
After Trump - A Surge in Ethno-Nationalism. "Trump legitimized deep ethno-national resentments. ... Driven by a fear of demographic and cultural change, white voters embraced racism and xenophobia and rejected the politics of civility," says Bart Banikowski, Associate Professor of Sociology & CES Resident Faculty, in Harvard Gazette.
Perspectives on Germany's refugee crisis by Klaus Zimmermann, CES John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, and Adrian Weickart, Harvard College student and CES intern, featured in Harvard Gazette article. (Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Moscow is getting closer to a gas pipeline deal with Ankara, but it’s not the geopolitical triumph some think. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will, counseled Antonio Gramsci. But in 2016, pessimism is gaining the upper hand. Art Goldhammer shares a personal perspective on the state of Europe and the United States. (Photo: Sipa USA via AP/Julien Mattia)
Narratives are not fairy tales. They are charged political tools. And honest narratives have many enemies these days.
Across Western Europe, marriage equality is fast becoming the norm: From Scandinavia through the Netherlands and Denmark; even the Catholic countries of Ireland, France and Spain. But there’s one glaring exception: Germany. It stands out not only because it is the largest country in Western Europe, but also because on many measures, it is among the most progressive.
What is transcending national boundaries to create today's political turmoil in the West? (Photo: AP Image/ Manu Fernandez)
Peter Gordon writes an in-depth review of the new biography of the life and thought of Jürgen Habermas.
This year, 27 European and American scholars join CES.
Merkel's high price for open-door immigration policy (AP Image/Markus Schreiber)
CES Senior Fellow Sir Paul Tucker co-authors a report that leaves aside the issue of EU reform and focuses on the desirable EU-UK relationship after Brexit.
Dark days this summer showed how government by the people—beset by illiberal populists on one side and undemocratic elites on the other—is poised for extinction. (AP Photo: Frank Augstein)
In 1991 George H.W. Bush promised a “New World Order.” A quarter of a century later, we’re finally catching a glimpse of it—like it or not. (AP Photo: Evan Vucci)
In their quest for the Conservative leadership, two rival Eton schoolboys have managed to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union—the first by calling for a referendum in 2013 in order to consolidate his hold over the leadership, and the second by joining the leadership of the Vote Leave campaign in order to hasten his rival’s downfall.
The European Connection: A Harvard Undergraduate's Perspective
"A Marshall plan for the Middle East?" The US once reached out to change Germany's status from enemy to ally. A similar strategy is now worth considering.
Tobias Schumacher, CES Short-Term Fellow, outlines why the ‘black garden’ will not blossom any time soon
The European Central Bank is under heavy attack in Germany, a country that has long prided itself on defending the principle of central-bank independence.
Aleksandar Shopov has worked to preserve urban gardens in Istanbul. "I had to save them," he says. “When those public places are erased, it moves people into arenas where demagoguery can take place."
The last best hope of Europe’s anti-austerity forces faces an uncertain future.
Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi called for greater investments in culture and education, in addition to national security, to stabilize current political and economic unrest in Europe at the Harvard Art Museums on Thursday.
Listen to Professor Alison Frank Johnson who comments on Weimar Germany and how the German government rose as a fresh democracy in 1919 but failed to resist the rise of radical new politics, and specifically of Adolf Hitler, by 1933.
European response should blend force and politics, Renzi says during Harvard talk
CES faculty comment on security issues after Tuesday's Brussels attacks.
Professor Peter Gordon's four-part lecture series examines legacy of ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ author
Yale historian Timothy Snuder aims for wider picture of momentum behind the Holocaust
Donald Trump's revolt against the forces of globalization has many echoes in Europe.
Daniel Ziblatt and Yascha Mounk argue that Max Weber nailed the problem with Donald Trump a century ago — and explained why his ideological flexibility is the most dangerous thing about him.
Does the Kremlin Control the Church? An analysis by CES Affiliate George Soroka
Cambridge, MA – The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) is pleased to announce the appointment of five distinguished academics and policy makers as Senior Fellows.
Elaine Papoulias, CES Executive Director, reflects on how today's displaced children remind her of a familiar story.
Watch the Speech It’s wonderful to be here amongst so many of Stanley’s friends, colleagues, and students. I’d like to start by saying to Inge just that your partnership with Stanley ...
Dimitar Bechev, CES Visiting Scholar, assess the strained relationship of the two leaders in the Syrian crisis
Reactions to the Paris shootings show France is looking outward
Daniel Ziblatt draws parallels between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi in New York Times.
CES Affiliate Art Goldhammer shares his perspective on the Paris attacks.
Cambridge, MA – Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) today announced that Radosław Sikorski, an accomplished public servant and practitioner of public policy, will join CES as a non-resident Senior Fellow.
Harvard History professor and CES Resident Faculty Niall C. Ferguson will leave Cambridge for Stanford’s Hoover Institution after 12 years.
2015 Summit on the Future of Europe discussion on Europe's refugee crisis is covered by the Harvard Gazette
Lewis remembers Hoffmann whose "mild manner commanded attention and respect without any need for bravado" and who "was utterly unconcerned by rank and hierarchy."
Yascha Mounk writes in Vox "With Stanley’s passing, the world has lost not only his charm, his kindness, and his knowledge. It has lost a model for what it means to be a scholar, an intellectual, and a mensch."
Stanley Hoffmann, CES Founder & Harvard Scholar of International Relations and French Politics, dies at 86
Art Goldhammer, CES Affiliate, pays tribute to Stanley Hoffmann
Elaine Papoulias comments on the challenges facing Greece after its recent deal with Europe
Peter Gordon's student Nishin Nathwani featured in 364th Commencement issue showcasing Harvard College's outstanding graduates this year.
Stella Ghervas, CES Visiting Scholar, will teach Harvard Summer Course on Europe's peacemaking
CES congratulates Mary D. Lewis, CES Faculty Associate and Professor of History, Harvard University, for receipt of a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
On April 13, 2015 CES announced a gift by the family of Hüsnü Özyeğin, a leading Turkish entrepreneur and highly esteemed philanthropist, to establish the Özyeğin Forum on Modern Turkey.
Martin's book focuses on employment and inequality in Europe since the beginning of monetary integration.
In Harvard visit, economist Thomas Piketty discusses his landmark text, conceding ‘strong limitations’
Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan discussed his new book, “The Killing Compartments,” ahead of a lecture at the Center for European Studies.
Panel Discussion on "What's Next for Greece" covered in The Harvard Gazette
CES Study Group Chair Elizabeth Podromou writes op-ed on Greece's negotiation options in the Huffington Post
Reflecting on the Congress system and efforts to solve the 1815 Polish crisis, CES Visiting Scholar Stella Ghervas outlines three lessons to resolve today's Ukraine crisis.
In aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris, Goldhammer, CES Affiliate and Chair of Visiting Scholars Seminar, is viewed as an "invaluable guide" to France's political and cultural landscape
Following his article "Europe's Brutal Truth" in Slate Magazine, Yascha Mounk is interviewed by Tom Ashbrook
The 200th anniversary of the Congress of Vienna has been largely overshadowed by this year's World War I centenary. The Toynbee Prize Foundation interviewed CES Visiting Scholar Stella Ghervas to discuss the significance of the post-Napoleonic period for Europe today.
CES Visiting scholar poses the question if "democratic regression" in Hungary and Slovenia points to significant challenges in Central and Eastern Europe after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
CES Visiting Scholar Bojan Bugaric writes that recent elections in Romania are pro-EU and portray a different picture of the Eastern European electorate.
A European Negotiation Game took place at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) within the framework of the “Global Europe in the 21st Century: Democracy, Policy and Governance” class (class DPI-431 ) in late September 2014.
Leading a nation long considered a model of economic dysfunction, Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania has pushed for change since his election last year. And the change needed in his country ...
Das Märchen vom Schicksalstag
November 8, 2014, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Note: This article was published in German only
When the wall came down
By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette, Staff Writer
How NSA Spying, Google and Chlorinated Chickens Are Pitting Germans Against Americans -- And What to Do About It
Harvard Crimson covers a panel discussion on Mediterranean Gas Reserves organized by the CES Eastern Mediterranean and Europe Study Group
CES Prof. Sarotte argues in The Guardian that President Putin's role as KGB officer in East Germany 25 years ago explains his hardline policies today.
Yascha Mounk argues that liberal democracy could be threatened by populism
"Wie Frieden geschaffen wird"
Der Wiener Kongress vor 200 Jahren gilt als Triumph der Reaktion gegen die Revolution. Aber er war auch ein großer Moment der Diplomatie, der Europa stabilisierte
"Wie Frieden geschaffen wird"
Der Wiener Kongress vor 200 Jahren gilt als Triumph der Reaktion gegen die Revolution. Aber er war auch ein großer Moment der Diplomatie, der Europa stabilisierte
The Harvard Gazette interviews Niall Ferguson on Scotland's referendum on September 18th.
They call on the ghosts of backward nationalism and an end to the EU. But it’s not the supporters of Scotlands independence who are endangering Europe.
Niall Ferguson in The Sunday Times argues against a "Yes" vote for Scottish Independence
On the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Mary Elise Sarotte's article "A Broken Promise" outlines what the West promised the Soviet Union about NATO expansion in the future.
Goldhammer comments that recent government troubles in France point to a deep seated crisis in Europe.
A century has passed since the guns of August 1914 ended the era of European predominance with a deafening bang. Could such a catastrophe recur in our time?
Where does Europe stand after the elections in May? What are the great policy challenges going forward? And what areas should a social policy agenda for the next five years prioritise? These are the questions that the journal Social Europe asked Prof. Peter Hall
"On July 2, France awoke to images of an unshaven and bleary-eyed Nicolas Sarkozy seated in the back of a police car after 15 hours of interrogation by the judicial police."
Interim CES Director and Professor of Government Daniel Ziblatt will spend the summer in Paris, France participating in the CES-Sciences Po exchange. Sciences Po will host Professor Ziblatt, where he will also ...
We at CES are so proud of our student' accomplishments. Please join us in congratulating this talented class of graduates.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Yascha Mounk, who co-wrote an article entitled "What Was Democracy?" in The Nation.
The International Political Science Association has awarded the 2014 Karl Deutsch Award to Professor Pippa Norris.
Art Goldhammer, a CES Affiliate, author, translator, and expert on French politics, is the English translator for Thomas Piketty's bestselling new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Our Student Programs Coordinator, Dr. Aida Vidan, took home a prize from the Boston International Film Festival for the short film, REGRET, which she co-wrote and co-produced with Sanja Zdjelar.
"A Passage from Hong Kong" reviews Rose George's new book "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate."
Harvard conference takes a look back at Congress of Vienna
CES faculty member to be awarded the "Ehrenkreuz fuer Wissenschaft und Kunst" award in addition to releasing his new book, Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood.
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Belknap Press)
"In their superb new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings have given us a portrait of this elusive but paradigmatic thinker that deserves to be ranked among the few truly indispensable intellectual biographies of the
Take a journey through history to learn about the Germanic art collection. The discussion examines Busch-Reisinger’s Teutonic genesis, inclusive evolution, and upcoming rebirth.
Dr. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels released her new book, "Migrants or Expatriates? Americans in Europe" with Palgrave Macmillan.
The seventh student-organized German Conference at Harvard will explore dimensions and perceptions of security across the Atlantic on February 14-15, 2014.
An article in The Economist entitled "Departmental determinism" describes how Mr. Miliband's economic strategy is rooted in Varieties of Capitalism theory.
Dr. Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, visited CES on Monday, November 25th to deliver a public lecture.
"The great recession, the dismal recovery and the silent depression" by Dr. Éloi Laurent was published on EurActiv.com.
FXB Center Research Fellow and friend of CES, Dr. Margareta Matache, writes an insightful new article with Sarah Dougherty on Roma discrimination in Europe.
CES is now taking applications for the 2014-2015 Visiting Scholars Program.
"European conundrum: Integration of Muslims or securitisation of Islam?" at World Review
CES graduate student affiliate Kirsten Wesselhoeft has been awarded a grant for 2013-2014.
CES affiliate Arthur Goldhammer has translated more than one hundred and twenty books from French. His translation of Tocqueville’s Ancien Régime and the Revolution won the FAF Translation Prize for 2011.
Mary Dewhurst Lewis is professor of history at Harvard and author of The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 (Stanford, 2007).
Kris Manjapra is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University.
Mareike Kleine, former John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at CES, recently released her new book, "Informal Governance in the European Union: How Governments Make International Organizations Work," with Cornell University Press.
“One of the major reasons for the crisis was rooted in this process of institutional degeneration that started before the crisis,” argues Sebastián Royo, professor of government at Suffolk University in Boston (in the print edition of the Financial Times on Tuesday, October 29th).
Mothers and grandmothers working from the ground up toward lasting peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina inspired Zilka Spahic-Siljak, visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School, to share their stories in a new book presented at CES on Monday, October 7th.
The European crisis-management was at each turn at best accidental and the challenges facing the EU five years down the road are great. But European leaders could turn this ever-threatening crisis into a meaningful transition if they focus on developing a 'green economy', writes Éloi Laurent.
CES launched a three-year pilot exchange program this summer with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), a political party in the European Parliament.
CES affiliate and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Muriel Rouyer recently published an article in the Women's Studies International Forum on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the culture of privacy.
The Center for European Studies is pleased to announce that Nicolas Berggruen, founder of the Berggruen Institute On Governance and co-author of Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century, has been appointed as the Center's first Senior Fellow.
CES faculty member, Professor Peter E. Gordon, takes to the SSRC blog to offer remarks on the recent book by Brad Gregory.
Are Muslims threatening the core values of the West?
Jocelyne Cesari examines this question through the lens of testimonies from Muslims in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.
This CES Graduate Student Conference is organized by PhD candidates in Harvard's Government Department and will take place on November 14- 15, 2013 at the Center for European Studies. Papers should be submitted by August 15, 2013.
CES Faculty Associate and Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Robert Putnam, will be honored as one of the 2012 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal winners at a White House ceremony.
CES intern Ana Kotevska published an article on Serbia and Macedonia's EU accession negotiations.
CES Resident Faculty Affilate Peter A. Hall's "Anatomy of the Euro Crisis: The political economy of a continent at cross-purposes" appears in the July-August 2013 issue.
A new edited volume by CES faculty affiliates Peter Hall and Michele Lamont
With chapters by CES Director Grzegorz Ekiert, graduate student affiliate George Soroka, and former visiting scholar Jan Teorell
To what extent do history and space shape the process of democratization? How to analyze the so-called transition paradigm? Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for ...
Hans-Helmut Kotz, a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt, and a resident faculty associate of Harvard University’s Center for European Studies, was a member of the board of Deutsche Bundesbank from 2002 to 2010.
CES affiliate Dr. Jocelyne Cesari is Director of the Islam in the West program at Harvard University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Centre for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University.
Center for European Studies Affiliate Paul-André Bempéchat will present six lectures at the Elie Wiesel Institute in Paris, on issues of assimilation and integration of Jewish composers during the nineteenth century.
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) was honored to host an essay contest on Europe with the students in Professor Muriel Rouyer’s class at the Harvard Kennedy School, “Global Europe: Democracy, Policy and Governance” (DPI 431).
CES Affiliate Jocelyne Cesari is senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and director of Harvard University’s program on Islam in the West.
CES faculty affiliate Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University. His books include Continental Divide and Rosenzweig and Heidegger.
Prof. Jasanoff was chosen in the US & Canada Competition in the field of Intellectual & Cultural History
Ten years after the U.S. war in Iraq, one will be hard pressed to find any positive evaluation of the 2003 intervention that toppled Saddam Hussein.
CES was very pleased to host short-term Sciences-Po Fellow Jean Pierre Filiu from February 27th to March 6th this year. Professor Filiu recently shared his impressions of Harvard and his experiences on campus during his weekly radio show.
The lion is king in this ‘secret’ garden
The Center is pleased to welcome 17 fellows into our Visiting Scholars Program during the spring 2013 semester. Every year, CES is pleased to host a number of Visiting Scholars on a ...
Applications are now being accepted!
Francis Fukuyama gave a talk at CES last Thursday as part of a conference on nation building sponsored by the Grundtvig Center at Aarhaus University.
The Center for European Studies is very pleased to announce that Elaine Papoulias has been named its Executive Director. Papoulias is the former Director of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central ...
CES Visiting Scholar Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels and former Visiting Scholar Liza Mugge (Spring 2012) recently published new chapters in edited volumes on migration studies.
Recipient Nina Yancy interned last summer through our "Internships Abroad" program with MP Paul Maynard for Blackpool North & Cleveleys (Conservative), London, England (UK).
CES Visiting Scholar Armin Steinbach comments in Wahl in Amerika - "Vom Winde verweht" (Election in America - "Gone with the Wind") - 6 Nov 2012
The application deadline for the 2013-2014 academic year is January 15, 2013
On November 7th, Niall Ferguson and Maya Jasanoff spoke at the “Everything is History and History is Everything" event, sponsored by the History Department.
Elaine Papoulias has been appointed as Executive Director of CES effective December 3. Elaine comes to CES from Harvard Kennedy School, where she served as the Director of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe.
Another honor for his recent Tocqueville translation.
CES Graduate Student Affiliate Yascha Mounk reviews Governing the World: The History of an Idea by Mark Mazower.
CES Visiting Scholar Armin Steinbach has two published two recent articles. One on pension reform in Germany and the other on the European Central Bank's crisis management.
Her article 'Rights of the Roma: between pogroms in France and visits to Romania' has been published in French.
The Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program, part of CES's initiative to internationalize undergraduate education at Harvard, gives students the chance to work with CES resident faculty members and visiting scholars on a project related to Europe.
The American Philosophical Society awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize for the best book in cultural history published in 2010 to Professor Peter E. Gordon in recognition of his book Continental Divide: Heidegger ...
CES congratulates our friend and colleague Dr. S. Allen Counter, Director of the Harvard Foundation and Honorary Counsel of Sweden in Boston, on the occasion of his appointment as "Knight of the ...
Erwan Lagadec recently published on his new book, "Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Europe, America, and the Rise of the Rest."
The newest series by our own resident historian, Niall Ferguson, premières on PBS. Civilization: The West and the Rest will broadcast on PBS affiliates at 8pm (ET) on May 22 and 29.
CES affiliate Art Goldhammer's article "Liberty, Fraternity, Austerity? The Cautious Streak of France's New Socialist President"
CES congratulates the following 2012 Hoopes Thesis Prize winner whose travel and research was supported by a fellowship from the Center: Benjamin Tyler Hand (Social Studies), "Utilitarianism and Democracy: From Bentham to ...
We continue our long tradition of promoting and funding student research on Europe. Thirty-seven undergraduates will pursue thesis research and internships in Europe this summer, while twelve graduate students have been awarded ...
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