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Stanford Center at Peking UniversityMay 15th, 2013
EU’s Catherine Ashton asserts Europe’s responsibility for a robust foreign policy
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe Europe Center was pleased to host Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission (HRVP), at Stanford University on May 7th. HRVP Ashton’s address to a capacity audience of Stanford senior scholars is part of the Europe Center’s program focused on European and EU regional and global relations. The event co-sponsors - the Center for International Security and Cooperation, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Hoover Institution - speaks to the esteem and the interest that multiple partners share in engaging the European Union’s highest foreign policy official. Read more »
Innovative leaders bridging diversity in Sweden and the West
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe Europe Center, through its Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region, has forged partnerships with those who bring visionary solutions to the challenge of diversity and reconciliation in our increasingly globalized world. “Harbor of Hope: a special evening celebrating Sweden’s diverse cultures” held on May 6th is the latest effort by the Europe Center to disseminate this new way of thinking. The participation of Sweden’s leading documentary filmmaker Magnus Gertten, and Sweden’s cultural entrepreneur Ozan Sunar, resulted in an unprecedented pairing and an evening of motivating insight for a large public audience. Read more »
April 1st, 2013
Presidents, Nuclear Reductions and the Senate
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Op-ed: Up Front, Brookings Institute on March 14, 2013Steven Pifer, director of the Brookings Arms Control Initiative, points out that nuclear reduction efforts have not always been accomplished through treaties requiring 2/3 majority in the Senate. Read more »
SORT vs. New START: Why the Administration is Leery of a Treaty
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Op-ed: Up Front, Brookings Institute on March 15, 2013Continuing his previous blog discussion on nuclear arms control efforts ("Presidents, Nuclear Reductions and the Senate", March 14, 2013) , Steven Pifer, director of the Brookings Institute Arms Control Initiative, points out that past experience with Republican senate partisanship makes alternatives to treaties the way to go for President Obama. Read more »
February 19th, 2013
A Soon-To-Be Global Nuclear Leader? The European Union in Global Nuclear Politics
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center, CISAC Op-edSince its inception, the European Union has come under criticism that it has consistently shied away from taking full-fledged global political and security responsibilities despite its role as an economic powerhouse on the world stage. Francesca Giovannini, TEC and CISAC Post-Doctoral Fellow, discusses how this is now changing, with the EU clearly taking the lead in global nuclear governance and how this assumption of a global leadership role presents both opportunities and challenges within the EU. Read more »
A cloud over EUs legacy in Afghanistan?
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Op-edTraining the Afghan National Police (ANP) has been the centerpiece of the EU's engagement in Afghanistan since 2007. What began as a German-led police training mission in 2002 became an EU-led mission in February 2007, christened EUPOL. After 6 years, and with the close of the international military combat mission in Afghanistan looming ahead in 2014, TEC Anna Lindh Fellow and Visiting Researcher Christian Tygesen discusses what is likely to be the legacy left behind by EUPOL. Read more »
February 11th, 2013
Stanford law professor, security expert to lead FSI
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR, The Europe Center, Shorenstein APARC NewsWhen Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar takes the helm of FSI in July, he'll oversee the institute's 11 research centers and programs along with a variety of undergraduate and graduate education initiatives on international affairs. His leadership will be marked by a commitment to build on FSI’s interdisciplinary approach to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Read more »
October 17th, 2012
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, The Europe Center, Shorenstein APARC NewsWith the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and explain what voters should listen for and what they need to keep in mind. Read more »
September 19th, 2012
Stanford Scholar Roland Benedikter wins Klaus Reichert Award in Karlsruhe, Germany
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Press ReleaseEurope Center visiting scholar Roland Benedikter (47), Dr. Dr. Dr., is honored with the 2012 Klaus Reichert Award for Medical Philosophy. Read more »
September 18th, 2012
A humanistic perspective on the European financial crisis, from Stanford Europe Center scholars
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the news: Stanford Report on September 17, 2012Europe Center scholars speak out on the role that history and culture play on the current European financial crisis. Read more »
September 17th, 2012
Democracy and Reconciliation: Jerusalem conference and launch of The Europe Center
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsIn the midst of the “Arab Spring”, and President Obama’s push for Palestinian-Israeli peace, The Europe Center (TEC) and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute hosted a May 18-19 conference on “Democracy in Adversity and Diversity” in Jerusalem, the first of a sequence of conferences in TEC’s collaborative project on Reconciliation. Read more »
September 9th, 2012
Konflikt in Italien: Südtirol wird zur Melkkuh Roms
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center in the news: Financial Times: Deutschland on September 9, 2012Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti wants to restructure the state budget at the expense of the rich North. The prosperous South is fighting tooth and nail. This article is in German. Read more »
August 1st, 2012
A Focus on contemporary Greece
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsThe Europe Center puts a focus on Greece, and the concern for its fiscal vitality, vulnerable citizens, potentially fragile democratic institutions, and its role in the EU and global economy. In this latest essay, Ruby Gropas offers her insight on the contemporary Greek situation with special research focus on the place of popular protest in democratic dissent, and examples of civil society filling in for the incapacity of political institutions. Read more »
July 27th, 2012
“Turkey’s outlook is positive”: Interview with Prof. Roland Benedikter
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsRoland Benedikter, Dott. Dr. Dr. Dr., is European Foundation Fellow 2009-2013, in residence at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies of the University of California at Santa Barbara, with duties as the European Foundations Research Professor of Political Sociology. His main field of interest is the multidimensional analysis of what he calls the current “Global Systemic Shift”, which he tries to understand by bringing together the six typological discourses (and systemic order patterns) of Politics, Economy, Culture, Religion, Technology and Demography. Roland is currently working on two major book projects: One about the “Global Systemic Shift”, and one about the “Contemporary Cultural Psychology of the West”, the latter comparing culturo-political trends in the European and American hemispheres. With both projects he is also involved in European Policy Advice. Read more »
July 24th, 2012
Spain's woes and Europe's
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsJoan Ramon Resina, Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Director of the Europe Center's Iberian Studies Program, discusses the political and cultural roots of the Spanish financial crisis. Read more »
July 12th, 2012
Amir Eshel’s new book on the concept of "Futurity"
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsAmir Eshel's new book, "Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past" challenges the traditional view of literature written about traumatic events. Read more »
July 5th, 2012
Nuclear arms control in 2012
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsAmbassador Steve Pifer, summarizes the New START Treaty, possible next steps on strategic forces, non-strategic nuclear weapons and missile defense issues. Read more »
July 2nd, 2012
Europe, beyond bashing
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsWith Europe's financial crisis front and center in the news for months, and in light of prognosticators' dire warnings of imminent collapse, TEC Director Amir Eshel talks about the strength and ability of Europe to overcome its economic troubles. Read more »
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 Q&AEuropean 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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