CES News & Events

May 2022

Ukraine War Testing Irish Neutrality

The war in Ukraine has tested the entire European Union, but it has raised particular challenges for Ireland, which has remained officially neutral in military conflicts since the 1930s. On April 29, during a discussion at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Simon Coveney, Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs and minister of defence, predicted that the Russian invasion will likely bring about a shift in attitude in the island nation.

"This war is changing the debate in Ireland. I think the Irish people will be more open to collective approaches to security.”

– Simon Coveney

The Impacts of Russia's Invasion

CES experts weigh in on seismic shifts from defense to migration

"This is not just a European story. It is a story about the global balance of power.”

– Professor Charles Maier

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upset global norms and reset European expectations for everything from security to growth. CES affiliates reflect on the historical, security, socio-political and economic dimensions of the conflict.

CES Supports Students Impacted by the War

To support Harvard College students impacted by the war in Ukraine, CES partnered with the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) to launch the Harvard Summer Stay in Washington, DC initiative.

Ukraine News Spotlight

Mary E. Sarotte

On Point

Are we entering a new Cold War era?

The New York Review

‘A bridge too far’

History Extra

We missed a precious window

Foreign Affairs

What China can learn from German history

C-Span Classroom

Expansion of NATO in the 1990s

Radoslaw Sikorski

L'Express

La Pologne avait averti les Occidentaux sur Poutine, il serait temps de nous écouter

BBC

US needs 30,000 troops in Poland to deter Putin

The Spectator

Putin’s war is a disaster for Russia

Persuasion

How the war might end

Rawi Abdelal & Alexandera Vacroux

The Boston Globe

The West can strengthen Zelensky’s negotiating position

Sigmar Gabriel & Martin Klingst

Atlantik-Brücke

Nord Stream 2 war ein Fehler. Und auf die Osteuropäer haben wir schlicht nicht gehört.

Michael Ignatieff

Persuasion

History brought

us here

Grzegorz Ekiert

Concilium Civitas

ZACHÓD NA WOJNIE!

Daniel Ziblatt &

Jutta Almendinger

WZBlive

Social science perspective on the war

Pippa Norris & Kseniya Kizlova

LSE Blog

What do ordinary Russians really think about the war in Ukraine?

Europe at War - Part 1

Europe at War - Part 2

Reflections on Greece’s Debt Crisis

On May 3, Harvard students and scholars were joined by former Finance Minister of Greece George Chouliarakis for an off-the-record roundtable.

Chouliarakis, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, played a key role in the negotiations which led to Greece’s third bailout package.