Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In that time, he has established a reputation as an authority on international law.
For the class of 1948, however, international current events were more than a topic of conversation to impress an interviewer or a cocktail party companion.
With the global conflict of World War II fresh in their minds, post-war Harvard students and Faculty grappled daily with international issues from communism to world federalism, arms technology to European reconstruction, arguing with the same intensity with which today's students debate identity politics or affirmative action.
The Tribune also attacked Harvard's nascent international studies programs. "Eastern Universities, always notorious in the higher education circles of this country for their internationalist sympathies, have placed themselves in the forefront of a movement to introduce regional studies to the world," wrote the Tribune reporter.
As Bemis Professor of International Law, Vagts has written or edited more than 50 books over the past 35 years, on countries ranging from Switzerland to Mexico and topics ranging from human rights to tax law.