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May 15th, 2013

EU’s Catherine Ashton asserts Europe’s responsibility for a robust foreign policy

FSI Stanford, The Europe Center News

The 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 News

The 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, 2013

Steven 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, 2013

Continuing 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-ed

Since 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-ed

Training 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 News

When 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 News

With 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 Release

Europe 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, 2012

Europe 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 News

In 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, 2012

Italian 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 News

The 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 News

Roland 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 News

Joan 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 News

Amir 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 News

Ambassador 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 News

With 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 news

The 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 News

Jamie 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 News

Economic 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 News

The 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 News

The 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&A

European 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. +VIDEO+
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Syria is Central to Holding Together the Mideast
Condoleezza Rice: "The civil war in Syria may well be the last act in the story of the disintegration of the Middle East as we know it. The opportunity to hold the region together and to rebuild it on a firmer foundation of tolerance, freedom and, eventually, democratic stability is slipping from our grasp."
Mention of Condoleezza Rice in Washington Post on November 3, 2012

US must recall it is not just any country
Condoleezza Rice: "The list of US foreign policy challenges is long and there will be a temptation to respond tactically to each one. But today’s headlines and posterity’s judgment often differ. The task at hand is to strengthen the pillars of our influence and act with the long arc of history in mind."
Mention of Condoleezza Rice in Financial Times on July 26, 2012

Time to Join The Law of the Sea Treaty
Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz, Condoleezza Rice: The U.S. has more to gain by participating in convention deliberations than by staying out.
Mention of Condoleezza Rice in Hoover Institution on May 31, 2012

The European Revolt Against Reality
Josef Joffe: "Forget for a moment François Hollande, who sent Nicolas Sarkozy packing on Sunday. Set aside, too, the triumph of the radical left and the neo-Nazis in Greece who together captured one-third of the vote. Look instead at Europe's real mess: the ..."
Mention of Josef Joffe in Wall Street Journal on May 9, 2012

Education keeps America safe
Condoleezza Rice and Joel Klein: "America's greatest strengths stem from the freedom to innovate, create, compete and succeed. Without a wide base of educated and capable citizens, our strengths will fade, and the United States will lose its capacity to lead in the international community..."
Mention of Condoleezza Rice in CNN on March 21, 2012

The promise of Russia's urban middle class
Condoleezza Rice: "The election of the once and future president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, tempts one to despair that the brief and inspiring political awakening in Russia over the past year was for naught. He ..."
Mention of Condoleezza Rice in Washington Post on March 8, 2012

Opinion: Eurozone must muddle through
Josef Joffe: "As one of the early skeptics of the European monetary union, events are now proving me and other critics right. But I am not going to take a cheap, I-told-you-so shot at the most ambitious integration project in the history of Europe ..."
Mention of Josef Joffe in Prague Post on March 8, 2012

Why Nobody Will Help the Syrian People
Josef Joffe: "When interests meet ideals in the arena of states, ideals lose out. How shall we count the ways? In recent times, there were Somalia, Rwanda and Darfur—the massacres and the ethnic cleansing dwarfing anything happening in Syria or, last summer, in Libya. In ..."
Mention of Josef Joffe in New Republic on February 27, 2012

Air campaign set unethical precedent in Iraq, prof says
Associate Professor of History Priya Satia B.A., B.S. ‘95 delivered a talk entitled “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia” Thursday at Annenberg Auditorium. The talk was part of the Ethics and War Series sponsored by the Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.
Mention of Priya Satia in The Stanford Daily on February 10, 2012

How Europe Views the US Presidential Campaign
Despite their ongoing economic troubles, Europeans are closely following the U.S. presidential campaign, says Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the leading German newspaper Die Zeit.
Mention of Josef Joffe in Council on Foreign Relations on February 9, 2012

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