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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) during the spring 2025 academic term.

CES Resident Faculty Derek Penslar on why the Israel/Palestine conflict has provoked extraordinarily fervent emotion throughout the world.

In a recent paper, CES Director Daniel Ziblatt argues 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.

A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School’s leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness.

CES Director Daniel Ziblatt joins Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales on the Capitalisn't podcast to discuss the fate of democracy after 2024.

McConnell is set to step down as the longest-serving Senate leader. Experts say he transformed the chamber into a battlefield.

In a democracy, when and where should majorities rule? And when should their powers ever be limited? CES Director Daniel Ziblatt and his co-author Steve Levitsky propose a framework to think through these questions in a new piece in the January 2025 issue of 'Journal of Democracy.'

CES Director Daniel Ziblatt and co-author Steven Levitsy talk with Michael Tomasky about what kind of mark four more years of Donald Trump might leave on this democracy.

Harvard-Professor Daniel Ziblatt erforscht, "wie Demokratien sterben". Donald Trump werde viel Schaden anrichten, sagt er. So schlimm wie in Ungarn werde es aber nicht.