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Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, at the European Parliament Tuesday as it voted to approve the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Almost five years after British voters chose, by a narrow 52-48 margin in the June 23, 2016 referendum, to leave the EU, Brexit finally is a done deal. On Tuesday evening, the European Parliament...
The Yale Translation Initiative at the MacMillan Center recently announced the establishment of both a graduate and undergraduate certificate in Translation Studies that is expected to become...
Migrants wait in queues to receive food being distributed by the volunteers outside the Railway Station during in Guwahti, Assam, 4 June, 2020. Photo by Talukdar David, Shutterstock
Economic Growth Center and MacMillan Center researchers, along with collaborating researchers, have conducted large-scale surveys of migrant workers in India. The findings can inform the policy...
Top row: Bergemann, Breaker, Brown, Cao, Casey; Middle row: Hansen, Horwich, Huber, Iwasaki; Bottom row: Johnson, Sigworth, Spielman, Tanner, Washington
Fourteen Yale faculty members who work across a range of disciplines were among the 252 accomplished individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences last week. Those elected are “...
Vernon Bogdanor CBE, Professor of Government at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King’s College, London
On April 19, the MacMillan Center hosted Vernon Bogdanor to speak on “Britain and the European Union after Brexit.” Bogdanor CBE is Professor of Government at the Institute of Contemporary British...
(top right) Peter Salovey, President, Yale University; (left) Elizabeth Bradley, President, Vassar College; and (bottom right) Firoz Rasul, President, Aga Khan University
On April 14, the Yale Institute for Global Health welcomed Peter Salovey, President, Yale University; Elizabeth Bradley, President, Vassar College; and Firoz Rasul, President, Aga Khan University,...
The socially-distancing Second Senate of the German Constitutional Court.
Last July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, agreed to an economic recovery plan  prepared at their request by the European Commission. The...
Armin Laschet, the CDU-CSU’s chancellor candidate, and Annalena Baerbock, the Greens’ chancellor candidate.
German voters will go to the polls on September 26 to elect the Bundestag. For most parties, the party leader is its presumed chancellor candidate in the election campaign. But in the case of the...
Rose Gottemoeller, the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation
On April 15, the MacMillan Center hosted Rose Gottemoeller, the U.S. chief negotiator of the New START treaty—and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation—to give the George Herbert...
Beijing on a day of heavy pollution in December 2015. Photo: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images.
In China, highly educated people are more likely to move away from areas with poor air quality. Reducing pollution could substantially increase GDP there and in other countries, according to a new...
Armin Laschet, CDU leader, and Markus Söder, CSU leader, after CDU-CSU meeting Tuesday to discuss chancellor candidate issue.
Last July, in a five-day marathon meeting of the European Council, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union agreed, with some modifications, to an economic recovery plan  prepared at...
Jim Scott
The article below and podcast appeared in Social Science Space on April 1. Listen to podcast When Jim Scott mentions ‘resistance,’ this recovering political scientist isn’t usually talking about...