Afghanistan: What on Earth Happened? What Do We Have to Worry about Next?
Three Afghanistan experts of the region discuss the Western withdrawal and collapse of the Afghan government.
You’re Doing It All Wrong! How Germans and Americans Misunderstand Each Other While Working to Deal with Climate Change
Since the inauguration of President Biden, the United States and Germany have established similar goals to decarbonize their economies by the middle of the century. But politics and public attitudes toward various technologies mean that the two countries are currently following different pathways. In this talk, Samantha Gross discusses how German and EU policies are…
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.