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Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s Prime Minister (2015-2019) serves as CES Policy Fellow
Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s Prime Minister (2015-2019), who rose to power on an anti-austerity platform during an acute stage of the Eurocrisis, has been appointed as a short-term, resident Policy Fellow of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) and The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) this spring. | ![]() | |
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Peter E. Gordon on the Complexities of Translating Marx

CES Resident Faculty Peter E. Gordon underscores how each translation of Karl Marx's Capital reflects not just linguistic choices but ideological perspectives, making it an ever-revised text in Marxist thought.
Brandmauer – Still Alive! Empirical Findings on Support for the AfD by Established Parties in Eastern Germany (2019- 2024)
In a recent discussion paper, CES Director Daniel Ziblatt and his co-authors Wolfgang Schroeder and Florian Bochert argue that, while the contentious "firewall" erected by German federal politicians against the AfD has developed cracks over the past five years, it remains more robust than widely believed.