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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.

Today Benjamin is widely esteemed as one of the foremost cultural critics and theorists of the 20th century. But his career was uneven and marked by failure. In 1925, after the faculty of philosophy in Frankfurt rejected his enigmatic study of German Baroque drama and dashed his hopes for an academic career, he found himself adrift, with little assurance of a regular income. But this failure also brought freedom.

Congratulations to CES Faculty Associate Vincent Pons who was named 2023 Best Young French Economist together with Julia Cagé by Le Monde.

El profesor de Harvard, coautor de ‘Cómo mueren las democracias’, analiza las claves de una época política turbulenta.

Congratulations to CES Resident Faculty Daniel Ziblatt and Faculty Associate Michèle Lamont, who were elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A new interview by CES Resident Faculty Daniel Ziblatt (in German) that was published in several German new outlets. "Democracies have the ability to self-correct. Autocracies do not." – Daniel Ziblatt

“As a historian of the British Empire, I felt as if this book was teaching me things about those entities and the nature of the global interconnected world that I have not known before.”