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 Center for European Studies Thursday evening.

Donfried, who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2021 to 2023, offered six key takeaways from 20 months of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Government professor Daniel F. Ziblatt, who will lead the CES beginning in January, introduced Donfried and moderated the conversation with the audience that followed the lecture.