The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Scholarly Publications
Money burning in the theory of delegation
May 2020
This paper uses a Lagrangian approach to provide sufficient conditions under which money burning expenditures are used in an optimal delegation contract.
Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?
March 2020
Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, we document that immigrants assimilated into US society at similar rates in the past and present.
Rhythm: Form and Dispossession
March 2020
More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human...
Other Publications
A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk
October 2019
Systemic risk arises when shocks lead to states where a disruption in financial intermediation adversely affects the economy and feeds back into further disrupting financial intermediation.
Le nouveau rêve américain : du Maghreb à la Californie
June 2019
Dans ce travail d'ethnographie urbaine qui la conduit de San Francisco à la Silicon Valley, de Los Angeles à San Diego, Marie-Pierre Ulloa se penche sur les diasporas maghrébines qui se sont...
Once, the ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ united Americans. Now it divides them.
April 2019
Even as Notre Dame Cathedral was burning, pundits such as Ben Shapiro and Katie Hopkins began to mourn it as a “monument to Western civilization … built on the Judeo-Christian heritage” —...
Old News
Anna Grzymala-Busse named CASBS 2020-2021 Fellow
March 2020
Five Stanford scholars will be among 38 fellows in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) during the 2020-21 academic year.The five fellows are MICHAEL...
Populism Is a Political Problem That Is Putting Democracy At Risk, Stanford Scholars Say
March 2020
This article was originally published in Stanford News By Melissa DeWitteThe rise of populism – a political argument that pits ordinary people against a corrupt, government elite – is putting...
Global Populism Is On the Rise But There Are Solutions, Say FSI Experts
March 2020
Once associated with Latin American and post-communist democracies, populist parties and politicians have now gained support and power in established democracies.
Events
The Academic Market and the Rise of Universities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1000-1800)
February 25, 2020
This talk is part of the Economic History Seminar Series, and is co-sponsored by The Europe Center.
The Making of World Authorship
February 20, 2020
This workshop is co-sponsored by: Comparative Literature, The Contemporary, the Department of Sociology, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, and The Europe Center
Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth
February 18, 2020
Inequality has become an intractable feature of the rich industrialized democracies, despite consensus among mass publics and experts that more social and economic equality is desirable.
Projects
European Public Finance
Modern European states have significant responsibilities to their populace, including ensuring that citizens’ basic needs are met and the provision of security, law and order, and other public...
English
European Governance
The governance of Europe has constantly been reimagined, debated, and revolutionized.
English
Austrian and Central European Program
The Europe Center's Austrian and Central European Program seeks to advance relations between the United States and Austria and Central Europe.
English
Multimedia
The World Heritage Bluff: Comparing Vienna’s historic city center with Ephesos
May 2019
Comparing Vienna’s historic city center with Ephesos, Sabine Ladstätter discusses how a consciousness for cultural heritage, apart from touristic-economic incentives and beyond national (in many cases regional) borders, can be created.Sabine...
Elections in a time of fragmentation and polarization: the European Parliament and Belgium
May 2019
As the European Parliament elections draw near this month, Christophe Crombez discusses what he sees as the possible outcomes in this period of fragmentation and polarization in the European Union.Christophe Crombez is Senior Research Scholar at...
How Democracies Die
April 2019
At Daniel Ziblatt's April 11th talk based on scholarship from his recent book co-authored with Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die, he discussed the current dangers facing democracies around the world, and ways of preventing democracy's...
People
Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
Condoleezza Rice Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Political Science, Professor, Management, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Timothy E. Josling Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Food Research Institute, Emeritus, 1940-2018 
Russell A. Berman Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Comparative Literature, Professor, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 