The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Institutions and Organizations
Scholarly Publications
The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia
May 2017
This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving...
Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order: The 'New' Heteronomy
July 2014
This book combines organization theory oriented institutionalism with Eisenstadt's work on comparative liminality, to develop a unique analytical framework and explore the dynamic of stability and...
The role of oversight committees in closed rule legislation
November 2013
In this article, Professor Christophe Crombez (Stanford University) and Wim Van Gestel (University of Leuven) formulate a game-theoretical model of closed rule legislation in the presence of...
Other Publications
Security Sector Reform in an Unstable, Fragile State (II/III)
January 2013
The policy brief examines two obstacles to effective security sector reform in an unstable and fragile state and outlines steps to address them.
Wer hilft den Opfern?
August 2011
Der diesjährige "Freedom in the World"-Bericht des Forschungsinstituts "Freedom House" weist bereits zum fünften Jahr in Folge auf einen alarmierenden Rückgang von Freiheit, Demokratie und Achtung...
While world seeks to defeat terror, Stockholm welcomes notorious terrorist into country
June 2011
The number one topic around the globe has been the world after Bin Laden and the appropriate ways for democracies to dispose of terrorists.
News
Macron, Brexit and the Future of European Politics
July 2017
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...
The fallout from Brexit
November 2016
Christophe Crombez, Senior Research Scholar at The Europe Center, and Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at SIEPR, explored the short-term and long-term consequences of Brexit and...
Cuéllar looks back on leading FSI
December 2014
For 14 years, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar has been a tireless Stanford professor who has strengthened the fabric of university’s interdisciplinary nature.
Old Events
Brexit, Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
February 7, 2019
To listen to the audio recording of this talk, please visit our multimedia page. The European Union (EU) is facing one of the rockiest periods in its existence.
Translating Cultures: Multilingualism and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World -- Stanford CMEMS Primary Source Symposium (Day 1 of 2)
October 4, 2018
Annual Stanford Primary Source Symposium For further information, including the speakers and talk titles, please visit https://cmems.stanford.edu/primary-source-symposium Co-sponsored by the Europe...
Translating Cultures: Multilingualism and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World -- Stanford CMEMS Primary Source Symposium (Day 2 of 2)
October 4, 2018
Annual Stanford Primary Source Symposium For further information, including the speakers and talk titles, please visit https://cmems.stanford.edu/primary-source-symposium Co-sponsored by the Europe...
Projects
European Governance
The governance of Europe has constantly been reimagined, debated, and revolutionized.
English
Principles of European Integration: Treaty revisions in multi-stage two-level processes
This project explores the revision of the treaties of the European Union using a multi-stage two-level-analysis.
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...
Brexit, Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
March 2019
Professor Catherine De Vries' March 21st talk "Brexit, Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration" at The Europe Center could not have been more timely given the morning's news about Britain's PM Theresa May's request made to the EU to...
People
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Condoleezza Rice Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Political Science, Professor, Management, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow Director, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 