The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Scholarly Publications
Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts
January 2019
This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience.
Guarding Traditions and Laws—Disciplining Bodies and Souls: Tradition, science, and religion in the age of Ottoman reform
October 2018
This article examines the religious and intellectual dynamics behind the Ottoman military reform movement, known as the New Order, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....
The long-term impact of employment bans on the economic integration of refugees
September 2018
Many European countries impose employment bans that prevent asylum seekers from entering the local labor market for a certain waiting period upon arrival.
Other Publications
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” —...
The Papal Human Rights Discourse: The Difference Pope Francis Makes
February 2019
Religious actors and their political concepts are commonly assumed to be conservative, static, and aligned with the private contemplative world.
What the death of the INF Treaty means for Europe
November 2018
The 1987 INF Treaty was a landmark arms control and disarmament agreement that eliminated from Europe the most dangerous weapons of the era, and significantly decreased nuclear threats between NATO...
News
Five key things to know about Ukraine’s presidential election
April 2019
Ukraine is halfway through a presidential election: The first round took place on March 31, and the run-off is coming up on April 21.
10 years after Obama’s nuclear-free vision, the US and Russia head in the opposite direction
April 2019
April 5 marks the 10th anniversary of the speech in which Barack Obama laid out his vision for a world without nuclear weapons. It did not gain traction.
Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution
March 2019
March 18 marks the fifth anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, which capped the most blatant land grab in Europe since World War II.
Events
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 School Reform (with Acemoglu, Pekkarinen and Sarvamak)
April 30, 2019
This workshop is part of the Economic History Workshop series in the Department of Economics and is co-sponsored by The Europe Center.
Does credit affect stock trading? Evidence from the South Sea Bubble
April 30, 2019
This workshop is part of the Economic History Workshop series in the Department of Economics and is co-sponsored by The Europe Center.
Elections in a time of fragmentation and polarization: the European Parliament and Belgium
April 3, 2019
To listen to the audio recording of this talk, please visit our multimedia page.The EU and its member states are currently facing a number of extraordinary internal and external challenges.
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
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...
The Future of Europe
April 2019
In her April 4th talk at The Europe Center, Professor Kathleen McNamara discussed the future of Europe and the EU in comparative historical terms, showing that such challenges are nothing new when governing power is centralized. Kathleen R....
People
Condoleezza Rice Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Political Science, Professor, Management, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Karl Eikenberry Professor of the Practice Shorenstein APARC Fellow, Affiliate, CISAC, Affiliate, CDDRL, Affiliate, TEC 
Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the 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 
