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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announcing today she’ll call Prime Minister Boris Johnson tomorrow and propose an intensification of the EU-UK negotiation.
After two weeks of meetings of the chief negotiators and their teams in specialized sessions, the EU and UK negotiating teams, led respectively by Michel Barnier and David Frost, met in Brussels this...
James Scott
The following interview with James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and Founder of the Agrarian Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, appeared in Slate...
Frederick Douglass
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center has announced the finalists for its 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most...
Maroš Šefčovič, European Commission Vice President, and Michael Gove, UK Cabinet Office Minister, meeting in Brussels yesterday as co-chairs of the Joint Committee, joined by Michel Barnier via videoconference.
After two weeks of meetings of the chief negotiators and their teams in specialized sessions, the EU and UK negotiating teams, led respectively by Michel Barnier and David Frost, are meeting in...
Garment workers demonstrating in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on September 20, 2020. Photo: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
Mushfiq Mobarak, Director of  the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) and Professor of Economics, describes the arc of his research on scalable, evidence-based policy responses...
European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center has organized “Visual Acts of Radical Care: An Exhibition of Feminist Artists-Activists from Central and Eastern Europe,” a 3D virtual art exhibition...
Sunil Amrith and Ram Vishwanathan
The South Asian Studies Council has a new face at its helm: Sunil Amrith, the new Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale. Amrith, who joined Yale from Harvard before the start of this...
Arya Sundaram
Arya Sundaram is the winner of the MacMillan Center’s William J. Foltz Journalism Award. Her submission, “‘Scared for my life’: why more Indians are joining migrants on risky journey to reach the U.S...
Photo by Moe Zaw (VOA) - Source article (direct source), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62125261
About a month ago, two soldiers from Myanmar crossed the border into Bangladesh and turned themselves in to local authorities. They were both seeking protection in the wake of a veritable bombshell...
The following op-ed written by Bruce Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale, and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont), the first vice chair of the Progressive Caucus in Congress, appeared...
European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, co-chair of the EU-UK Joint Committee, after emergency meeting in London yesterday with fellow co-chair Michael Gove.
This week the EU and the UK held another week-long round in their negotiation of an agreement in regard to their future relationship after the UK’s transition period ends and it leaves the EU’s...
Ernesto Zedillo, the Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics at Yale, has been appointed to...