May 7th, 2012
The challenge for French president-elect Hollande
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the newsThe French elected Socialist party candidate François Hollande as their next president. The Europe Center's Roland Hsu weighs in on what the new leader means for France, the euro and a viable Europe. Read more »
Comment by Karl Eikenberry on "Keeping NATO Relevant"
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center, Governance Project NewsJamie Shea's essay “Keeping NATO Relevant” appearing in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace April 2012 edition of Policy Outlook offers a comprehensive, thoughtful, and - given the 20-21 May NATO Summit in Chicago - timely discussion of the Alliance's future. Read more »
April 27th, 2012
Conference on "History and Memory: Global and Local Dimensions"
International conference at Stanford University May 17-18, 2012 aims to deepen our understanding of the interplay between history and memory. Read more »
April 23rd, 2012
Economic revival, the Euro-zone, and alliance with US international policy at stake in the French presidential election
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsEconomic revival, the Euro-zone, and alliance with US international policy at stake in the French presidential election. Read more »
March 20th, 2012
Visiting faculty to teach courses of special interest in spring 2012
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe Europe Center announces three special courses taught by visiting faculty in the Department of German Studies and the Iberian Studies Program. Read more »
February 1st, 2012
The Europe Center announces publication of new Nelly Sachs biography
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe richly illustrated Nelly Sachs: Flight and Metamorphosis marks the first time that the biography of Nelly Sachs has been made available in English. Read more »
December 8th, 2011
Q&A: Stanford’s Fukuyama on European debt crisis
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, The Europe Center, Governance Project NewsEuropean leaders converged in Brussels to figure a way out of a worsening debt crisis and agreed to greater financial oversight and centralization. England refuses to go along with the plan, and Stanford political scientist Francis Fukuyama says he expects some countries will start bailing out of the eurozone.
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November 17th, 2011
Distinguished scholar Robert Harrison delivers The Europe Center “Europe Now” Lecture
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe Fall 2011 Europe Center distinguished “Europe Now” speaker, Robert Harrison is a research affiliate at the Center. At Stanford University, Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature. A profound thinker on medieval Italian literature, Harrison has also established himself as one of our preeminent analysts of western culture, and its preoccupation through literature, religion, and mythology in the interchange of secular and sacred realms. Read more »
November 14th, 2011
Former ambassador on Berlusconi, Monti and cutting Italian debt
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsAs a new government takes place in Italy, Ronald Spogli talks about what’s next for the country and whether America should get involved in the eurozone’s tailspin. Spogli, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy from 2005 to 2009, is a Stanford trustee and major benefactor to the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Read more »
November 11th, 2011
Roland Benedikter's Commentary on Tibetan Autonomy Published in Time Magazine
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the news: TIME Magazine on October 31, 2011TEC Visiting Scholar Roland Benedikter comments on TIME Magazine article by Hannah Beech "Tibet's Next Incarnation" (October 10, 2011) written about Tibet's future. Read more »
October 21st, 2011
Roland Hsu (TEC) on Human Rights, Gender Equality, Roma Schools, and Reconciling Post-atrocity Communities with the Arts
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsRoland Hsu, Associate Director of The Europe Center at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies was interviewed by the Media Project on the subjects of The Europe Center's research, and its sponsorship of the United Nations Association International Film Festival. Read more »
October 20th, 2011
Innovative Sweden and Swedish Institute Alumni Gathering at Stanford
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center AnnouncementThe Swedish Institute invites US students who have studied in Sweden to gather at an Alumni Event at Stanford University on November 5, 2011, 1-4 pm. Read more »
October 18th, 2011
The Botstiber Institute for Austrian American Studies Announces 2012 Applications Available
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the newsThe Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) offers grants and a fellowship to promote an understanding of the historic relationship between Austria and the United States. The 2012 application guidelines are now available. Read more »
October 13th, 2011
International Conference on "History and Memory: Global and Local Dimensions"
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe Europe Center announces its upcoming international conference on “History and Memory: Global and Local Dimensions”. With European and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute partnership, the conference is part of the Center’s multi-year series on Reconciliation, seeking insight and answers to regional and civil conflict in today’s world of nationality, resource, and territory disputes, as well as multicultural communities and global immigration and mobility. The conference on “History and Memory: Global and Local Dimensions” is the second of the Center’s international conferences in the series; the first was on “Democracy in Adversity and Diversity.” Read more »
Ambassador Pifer Offers Commentary on Tymoshenko Conviction
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the news: Brookings Institution website on October 13, 2011Steven Pifer, former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, provides insight into the pressing subject of the conviction of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Ambassador Pifer notes the remarkable combination of international condemnation -- a rare agreement from Europe, Russia, and the United States -- diplomatic pressure from US and EU representatives, and the prospect of a slow and reluctant capitulation by Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych. Read more »
TEC Faculty Research Affiliate Edith Sheffer Wins 2011 Fraenkel Prize
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the newsEdith Sheffer (Assistant Professor, History, Stanford University) has been awarded the 2011 Fraenkel Prize, for her book "Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain" (Oxford, 2011). Read more »
October 12th, 2011
New Series: European and Global Economic Crisis
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe Europe Center has launched its series addressing the European and global economic crisis. The Europe Center is hosting research and outreach programming and podcast interviews on such key elements as the depth of sovereign and private sector debt, public sector reform, and the policies and political constraints on leadership on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more »
October 5th, 2011
Developing Partnership: The Europe Center and University of Innsbruck
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsOn September 13th, The Europe Center Associate Director Roland Hsu met with University of Innsbruck Rector Tillman Mark and members of his rectory to discuss areas of cooperative research and scholar exchange. Read more »
September 26th, 2011
New Economic Thinking - Simon Dixon Interviews Roland Benedikter
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the news: BankToTheFuture on September 19, 2011TEC Visiting Scholar Roland Benedikter is interviewed by Simon Dixon, CEO and Founder of BankToTheFuture,com. Read more »
September 8th, 2011
Turkey between Religion, Ideology and Politics: An Interview with Professor Roland Benedikter
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the news: Mehrnameh: Iranian Journal of Politics and Social Sciences, TeheranInterview of Professor Roland Benedikter conducted by Abuzar Baghi, Journalist and Editor-in-chief of the International section of Mehrnameh. Journal of the Iranian Civil Society, published as an independent review for the Iranian Civil Society since 2002 in Teheran, Iran. Read more »
August 12th, 2011
On Contemporary Turkey: an Interview with Prof. Roland Benedikter
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the news: Royal Holloway University London Research Unit: Changing Turkey in a Changing World on June 16, 2011In this interview, Roland Benedikter gives an account of his experiences as Visiting Professor at Mersin Universitesi and his view on the situation and the perspectives of contemporary Turkey at the interdisciplinary crossroads between political, economic, cultural and religious issues.
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July 19th, 2011
Norman Naimark's 'Stalin's Genocides' published in Ukranian
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsA new Ukranian translation of Norman Naimark's most recent book 'Stalin's Genocides' (Princeton University Press, 2010) has been published by the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House. Professor Naimark attended the May 10-11 presentations of the new translation in Kiev. 'Stalin's Genocides' has also been published in German, and Japanese and Russian translations are forthcoming.
June 28th, 2011
New Paper on the US-Ukraine-Russia Nuclear Trilateral Process
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the newsWhen the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine had the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. When Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on removing these weapons from Ukraine appeared to break down in September 1993, the U.S. government engaged in a trilateral process with Ukraine and Russia. The result was the Trilateral Statement, signed in January 1994, under which Ukraine agreed to transfer the nuclear warheads to Russia for elimination. In return, Ukraine received security assurances from the United States, Russia and Britain; compensation for the economic value of the highly-enriched uranium in the warheads (which could be blended down and converted into fuel for nuclear reactors); and assistance from the United States in dismantling the missiles, missile silos, bombers and nuclear infrastructure on its territory. Steven Pifer recounts the history of this unique negotiation and describes the key lessons learned. Read more »
June 13th, 2011
Announcing the Stig and Brita-Stina Hagstrom Memorial Fund
AnnouncementThe Europe Center at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and The Stanford Center for Innovation in Learning announce the Stig and Brita-Stina Hagstrom Memorial Fund in memory of Stig and Brita-Stina Hagstrom to be used to support fellowships and activities designed to support Stanford-Sweden international exchange. Read more »
May 1st, 2011
Economist Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait gives Payne Lecture
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the newsJohn Micklethwait, the Editor-in-Chief of the London based Economist delivered a Payne Distinguished Lecture, "The World Ahead," on May 3, in honor of the official launch of The Europe Center. He was introduced by Stanford President Emeritus Gerhard Casper. Noting that the economist Herb Stein once said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop," Micklethwait chronicled current geopolitical and economic issues that fit that category. On his nuanced list were looming imbalances in the global economy, China's growth trajectory, the Euro, rising inequality and the ever bigger state.The lecture was jointly sponsored by FSI and The Europe Center.












