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Steven Pifer, new CISAC and TEC fellow, to focus on international security
Ambassador Steven Pifer, BA ’76, a top expert in U.S.-European relations, arms control and security issues and retired State Department Foreign Service officer, has been named to a new senior position at Stanford University.
Anna Grzymala-Busse Appointed New Director of The Europe Center
The Europe Center is pleased to announce that Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse will assume its directorship on September 1, 2018. Founded in 1997 and jointly sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Stanford Global Studies (SGS), The Europe Center (TEC) provides an interdisciplinary platform for collaboration among scholars who teach and conduct research on the histories, cultures, institutions, and people of Europe. Grzymala-Busse will succeed Kenneth Scheve, a senior fellow at FSI and professor of political science, who has led the center since 2013.
Featured Faculty Research: Dan Edelstein
Dan Edelstein earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and came to Stanford in 2004. He is William H.
Americans have different ideas about what makes taxes ‘fair.’ But the GOP bill has something all sides oppose.
In the New York Post article written by Ken Scheve and David Stasavage, the co-authors of Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, the real motivation behind opposition to the GOP tax bill is examined in light of their research.
To read the full article, please visit the Washington Post (Monkey Cage) webpage.
Stanford study examines political reckoning of authoritarians in the face of crises
In the years since World War II, as the global geopolitical map was drawn and redrawn along ideological lines, the world witnessed ascension of many authoritarians. They often ruled for long stretches, but eventually most faced a political reckoning. The people they governed no longer accepted their authority and demanded change.
New Stanford research explores immigrants’ decision to return to Europe during historical Age of Mass Migration
Today’s conversation about immigration and the role of immigrants in America is not so different from the conversations that took place more than 100 years ago, when European immigrants settled in cities and on farms in the United States.
The Magnitsky Act - Russian lawyer in Trump Jr. meeting lobbied against it; why does Putin hate it so much?
Norman Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Professor of History, and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution writes about Putin's views on the Magnitsky Act.
Macron, Brexit and the Future of European Politics
Patrick Chamorel, senior resident scholar at the Stanford Center in Washington DC, weighs in on the geopolitical impact of the French and UK elections in a Scholars' Circle interview. Joining the discussion are Jeroen Dewulf, associate professor of German at UC Berkeley and Mark Amsler, associate professor of European Languages and Literature at the University of Auckland.
Breaking down Brexit
Christophe Crombez, Stanford Senior Research Scholar at The Europe Center, talks about the global effects of Brexit on World Affairs
To listen to the conversation in its entirety, please visit the World Affairs' Conversations that Matter webpage.
The Europe Center May 2017
Event Recap: Former Finnish Prime Minister, Alexander Stubb, Visits Stanford
The Europe Center April 2017
Event Recap: First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, Visits Stanford
The Europe Center February 2017
40 Years of the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor Program at Stanford
The Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professorship at Stanford
The history of the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at Stanford begins with the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. At this time, Austria wanted to make a gift to the United States – as did many other states – in order to demonstrate its appreciation for America’s support following the Second World War.
The proclamation by the Austrian National Committee on the American Bicentennial reads as follows:
Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor: Axel Polleres
Axel Polleres is currently a visiting professor at Stanford under the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professors program hosted by The Europe Center in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Featured Graduate Student Research: Michael Schwalbe
Michael Schwalbe is a PhD candidate in Psychology and a researcher at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Michael’s research focuses on the psychology of change and how theory-driven interventions increase achievement and well-being.
Featured Faculty Research: Jonathan Rodden
Jonathan Rodden started his academic career at MIT, and joined the Stanford political science faculty in 2007. In 2012, he founded the Stanford Spatial Social Science Lab, which is a center for research and teaching dedicated to the use of geo-spatial data in the social sciences.
Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality over the millennia
What price do we pay for civilization? For Walter Scheidel, a professor of history and classics at Stanford, civilization has come at the cost of glaring economic inequality since the Stone Age. The sole exception, in his account, is widespread violence – wars, pandemics, civil unrest; only violent shocks like these have substantially reduced inequality over the millennia.
The Europe Center January 2017
Event Recap: The European Crises, Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University)
The Europe Center kicked off its winter quarter talks by continuing its series on the European Union. Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Director of the European Union Program at Princeton, spoke on the topic of "The European Crises."
Visiting Scholar: Jonas Tallberg
Jonas Tallberg is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. His research interests are global governance and European Union politics. He currently directs the research program “Legitimacy in Global Governance” (LegGov), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Featured Graduate Student Research: Jane Esberg
Jane Esberg is a PhD Candidate in Political Science.
Q&A with Professor Naimark on the History of Genocide
Sixty-eight years later, acts of genocide still occur, despite international efforts to prevent them.
The state of US-Russia relations
At a recent European Security Initiative (ESI) lecture held at the GSB's Oberndorf Event Center, Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the US, described US-Russia relations as being at its worse point since the end of the Cold War.
Ambassador Kislyak then went on to list the series of US actions that he believes led up to this.
Moderated by Michael McFaul, the Director of FSI, Professor of Political Science, and former US Ambassador to Russia, the lecture drew a large audience of over 200 students, faculty, staff and members of the public.