Time for Leaders to Step Up: Recommendations to the US, Europe, and Russia for Dialogue, Predictability, and Stability
Advancing strategic stability in the Euro-Atlantic region.
Automobiles and the Convergence of Safety, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Risks
Risks historically treated as distinct—safety, cybersecurity, and privacy—are converging in the auto industry. Andrew Grotto explains.
The Very Difficult Mr. Putin: What Russia Wants and How the West Should Respond
Steven Pifer describes the factors driving Russian policy, as well as a policy response for the West.
Stepping onto the Pedestal: An Animating History of Art Restitution from the Napoleonic Wars
Alice Goff offers a novel view of the contradictions within nineteenth-century Prussia’s liberal cultural politics—and the consequences for our own understanding of restitution and museology in Germany today.
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
John Connelly discusses how to write East Europe's history.
The Refugee Crisis: Crossing, Cutting, and Burning the Mediterranean Seametery
Hakim Abderrezak discusses coverage of recent Mediterranean Sea crossings to interrogate the terminology individuals and scholars use to examine this human tragedy.
Fellow Spotlight: Naghmeh Sohrabi
Naghmeh Sohrabi illuminates the small-scale experiences that together—and after the fact—came to define Iranian “revolutionary experience.”
Fellow Spotlight: Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Robert F. Reid-Pharr is mapping the contradictions that underwrote the celebrity of writer and activist James Baldwin.
Gate of Tears: Migration and Immobility across the Red Sea
Nathalie Peutz and Steven Serels consider the humanitarian crisis and the pandemic in Yemen, where over half the population faces acute food shortages, fears of mass displacement are growing, and armed conflict intensifies.
Idiom: Unifying and Integrating Compositional and Improvisational Language as a Composer-Performer
Anna Webber argues that jazz’s composer–performers thus occupy a unique and privileged position: they may create the ideal vessels for their own improvisation, composing shapes that most perfectly incorporate their priorities and desires as performers.