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Tag: European Union
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Nation & World
Ukraine war testing Irish neutrality
Foreign minister expects more openness to defense pacts, military spending, cites brutality of invasion in Gunzburg Center event.
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Nation & World
How war in Ukraine is reshaping global order
Douglas Lute, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2013 to 2017, discusses how the conflict in Ukraine has begun reshaping the global order.
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Nation & World
How might the election change the nation’s place on world stage?
Analysts assess how a Biden presidency could reshape U.S. relations, impact the nation’s intelligence community, and prompt a nuclear recalibration by North Korea, Iran, and Russia.
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Work & Economy
‘If it’s not over on the disease … it’s not over on the balance sheet’
Harvard Kennedy School economist Carmen Reinhart, an expert on financial crises who will become chief economist and vice president at the World Bank next month, discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy and the global challenges on the horizon.
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Nation & World
Harvard ramps up focus on Europe
A new academic program at the Kennedy School trains resources on an old and sometimes forgotten friend to the United States: Europe.
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Nation & World
An electoral French revolution
Two recent Harvard Kennedy School graduates talk about how their involvement in Emmanuel Macron’s insurgent campaign in France had roots in their time at Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Advice for scientists: ‘Be vocal’
Carlos Moedas, European Union Science Commissioner, spoke about the importance of science in the “post-truth” era in a visit to the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
After Brexit, a changed future
Harvard analysts talk about the effects of the United Kingdom’s referendum to leave the European Union on both Britain and the continent.
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Nation & World
Britain muses: Play bridge or solitaire?
Former Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander discusses the issues behind the national referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union and the potential economic and political ramifications should voters decide to sever ties.
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Nation & World
Confrontation in Ukraine
Serhii Plokhii, an authority on Ukrainian history and director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, explains what’s behind the violence and what’s at stake for a country that’s caught in a tug-of-war between Europe and Russia.
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Nation & World
Where corporations, public meet
After six years of work, Harvard Kennedy School Professor John Ruggie has developed United Nations-approved guidelines to ensure businesses respect the human rights of those they interact with around the world.
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Nation & World
Hope for continental recovery, in 2013
A top European Union official says there are signs that reform measures taken in response to the economic crisis in Europe are working, and that a recovery could begin in 2013.
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Nation & World
A firm voice on Europe
Jan Fischer, former PM and current presidential candidate in the Czech Republic, talked to a Harvard audience about the debt crisis and the possibility of a full European federation.
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Nation & World
Germany, again a linchpin
For the third time in a century, Germany stands ready to change the fortunes of Europe — this time, analysts believe, for the better, said a founder of Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Nation & World
Forces beyond nations
Most people would say they live in a globalized world, but a sociology professor favors the model of a denationalized world in which regional organizations increasingly predominate.
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Nation & World
Knitting Europe together
Top Obama official discusses the need to integrate the nations of southeastern Europe into the rest of the continent.
