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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The following article written by Alan Mikhail, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, appeared in Time on September 3: At the end of August, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip...
Photo caption: (From left) Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Professor of History at the University of Havana and Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor at Yale University; Liliana Nuñez Velis, President of FANJ; and Claudia Valeggia, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, gather to sign a “celebration statement” at FANJ on March 10, 2020 to inaugurate the memorandum of understanding between Yale University and FANJ.
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the MacMillan Center at Yale University and Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez (FANJ) in Cuba are delighted to announce a Memorandum of...
From left: Elizabeth Nugent, Nick Wade ’21, Sarah Kammourh ’22, and Marwan Safar Jalani ’20
In March, Yale political scientist Elizabeth Nugent was about to start a post-election survey in Tunisia to better understand the effects of repression on political partisanship following a...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announcing yesterday that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a chemical weapon.
Update: Yesterday, the Charité hospital in Berlin announced Navalny “has been removed from his medically-induced coma and is being weaned off mechanical ventilation. He is responding to verbal...
Alan Mikhail, professor of history and chair of the department of history, has expanded our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of the Middle East...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announcing Phil Hogan’s resignation as trade commissioner.
Update: On Friday, the Irish government put forward two candidates for the position of commissioner vacated by Hogan – Mairead McGuinness, the First Vice President of the European Parliament, and...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, speaking Friday after last week’s round in the EU-UK negotiation.
Last week, the EU and UK negotiating teams, led by Michel Barnier and David Frost, met in Brussels for the seventh round in the negotiation of their future relationship. The UK will leave the EU’s...
Thomas Thurston, Education Director at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, talks with Westenley Alcenat on his book project “Children of Africa, Shall be...
David Shimer ’18 B.A., M.A.
Russian hackers and internet trolls sought to manipulate American voters throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, as they are doing again in 2020. Their efforts represent the latest chapter in...
(Photo credit: Dan Renzetti)
Yale University will soon welcome more than 1,900 undergraduates to live and study on campus, a step that follows months of intensive preparations for a fall semester in which fastidious attention...
European Council President Charles Michel announcing the conclusions of yesterday’s video conference.
On August 9, Aleksandr Lukashenko was elected to his sixth term as president of Belarus, a position he has held since 1994. According to the Central Election Commission, he received 80.1 percent of...
Timothy Snyder
The following opinion piece written by Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History and the author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” appeared in the Washington Post on August...