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Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson after their meeting in Dublin yesterday.

After passage of Benn bill and Johnson’s sixth defeat, House of Commons is prorogued

Last night, in a tumultuous scene as opposition MPs objected and sought to block his departure, John Bercow, the Speaker of the British House of Commons, led government MPs to the House of Lords for the prorogation ceremony that terminated the parliamentary session that began after the June 2017...

MacMillan Center awards book prizes to three faculty members

Three Yale faculty members have been awarded book prizes by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

Two faculty members received the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book: Edyta Bojanowska, Professor of Slavic Languages and...

Learning Classical Chinese in Vietnam

This summer I arrived in the land of my ancestors for the first time. After hearing about Vietnam for the past eighteen years, I have had the chance to experience her for myself. What better way to experience a country than through cultural immersion? Thanks to a fellowship from the Council on...

Study illuminates how human activity has transformed the Earth

Thousands of years before humans began burning fossil fuels, they had indelibly altered the natural world through foraging, herding animals, and farming, according to a new study by an international consortium of archaeologists.

The study, published Aug. 30 in the journal Science,...

In July 1944, 730 delegates from 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to create a framework for the postwar international monetary and financial order. (© stock.adobe.com)

Reflecting on Bretton Woods with Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro

In July 1944, representatives of the 44 Allied nations gathered at a resort hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to plan the post-war international monetary and financial order.

The resulting Bretton Woods Agreements replaced the international gold standard — the prevailing system of...

Events

September 15, 2019, 1:30pm - Highlights Tour
September 16, 2019, 4:00pm - SASC Lecture Series: Archives as Interpretation, Venkat Srinivasan
September 16, 2019, 5:00pm - New Ways of Working: Delivering Health Services to Forcibly Displaced People in Africa
September 17, 2019, 4:30pm - Order of the British Empire with Roy Stewart
September 18, 2019, 12:00pm - CSEAS Brown Bag Seminar: "Constructing an Asian Look: Beauty Ideals and Cosmetic Surgery in Malaysia"

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