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Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov before Monday’s meeting in Geneva.

After Geneva, U.S.-Russia talks on Ukraine move to NATO, then to the OSCE

On Sunday evening, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov had a working dinner in Geneva in the first of several discussions this week focused on resolving the crisis created by the recent buildup of more than 100,000 Russian troops,...

Josh Mentanko

Perspective: Aligning health and economic priorities makes sense—if we choose the right ones

The following article written by Josh Mentanko, assistant program director of the Councils of European and Latin American Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center, appeared in the...

President Biden discussing Ukraine and next week’s talks with President Putin last Thursday from Wilmington.

Update on the Russia-Ukraine crisis: Negotiations start next week

Next week, three separate-but-linked negotiations involving the U.S., NATO, and Russia, with Ukraine in the wings, will get underway in a multilateral effort to resolve the crisis created by the  recent buildup of more than 100,000 Russian troops, accompanied by tanks, artillery and other...

Jonathan Spence

In Memoriam: Jonathan D. Spence, renowned scholar of Chinese civilization

Jonathan Spence ’65 Ph.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, whose scholarship shaped the field of China studies for half a century, died Dec. 25 at home in West Haven, Connecticut of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 85.

President Peter Salovey, noting the community’s...

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which the EU Commission has charged with violating EU law in two decisions last year.

EU charges Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal with violating EU law

It was hard to imagine the long-running dispute between the EU and Poland over the rule of law could get much worse than it already was, what with the Article 7 Rule of Law procedure the EU triggered four years ago and the repeated infringement procedures initiated by the Commission since then....

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