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Karen Donfried, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, delivered the fourth annual Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany at the CES.

2023-2024 John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellows Martin Klingst and Anna Sauerbrey interviewed CES Resident Faculty Daniel Ziblatt on his new book "Tyranny of the Minority."

What did the West and Moscow agree on in 1990? A conversation with Mary Elise Sarotte about the long eve of the Ukraine war - and the way out.

At the annual Harvard Powwow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Graduate Affiliate Kabl Wilkerson was featured speaking about celebrating their Native roots.

"15th October will decide the fate of our democracy and the balance of political power between populists and democrats in the European Union," says CES Senior Fellow Radosław Sikorski about the upcoming elections in Poland.

Internationally renowned scholar of democracy and state-building in Europe, Daniel Ziblatt, has been named the new director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). Ziblatt, who serves as Harvard’s Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, will begin his three-year term on January 2, 2024. He succeeds Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, who has served as CES Director since 2012.

CES Resident Faculty Daniel Ziblatt and co-author Steve Levitsky follow ‘How Democracies Die’ with call for reforms in face of ‘radicalized’ elements in GOP.

"Unfortunately, today’s Republican Party more closely resembles the French right of the 1930s than the Spanish right of the early 1980s," say CES Resident Faculty Daniel Ziblatt and co-author Steve Levitsky in latest New York Times opinion piece.

The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.