The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Rule of Law
Scholarly Publications
Is There a “Modern” Natural Law Theory? Notes on the History of Human Rights
December 2016
Human rights are a complex concept with distinct parts, whose histories are often independent from one another.
A Question of Genocide
December 2011
One hundred years after the deportations and mass murder of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other peoples in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the history of the Armenian genocide is a...
The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
October 2009
In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature...
Other Publications
The Magnitsky Act - Russian lawyer in Trump Jr. meeting lobbied against it; why does Putin hate it so much?
July 2017
Sergei Magnitsky was a thirty-seven year old Russian lawyer and auditor who worked for Hermitage Capital Management, a firm founded in 1996 by Bill Browder, the grandson of the famous leader of the...
News
Q&A with Professor Naimark on the History of Genocide
December 2016
Sixty-eight years later, acts of genocide still occur, despite international efforts to prevent them.
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.
The Europe Center October 2014 Newsletter
October 2014
The Europe Center Graduate Student Grant Competition Call for Proposals: The Europe Center is pleased to announce the Fall 2014 Graduate Student Grant Competition for graduate and professional...
Old Events
Europe at the Crossroads
November 9, 2015
General Philip M. Breedlove will discuss the rapidly evolving geopolitical climate in Europe.
On Cruelty: Global Reflections from the Age of Revolutions to the War on Citizenship
October 30, 2015
This is the second meeting of the workshop series on Civility, Cruelty, Truth. A one-day event hosted by the Stanford Humanities Center, the workshop will explore the genealogies, promises, and...
Wales to Warsaw: NATO and the Current State of Transatlantic Security
April 7, 2015
At the NATO Summit in Wales in September 2014, NATO leaders were clear about the security challenges on the Alliance’s borders.
Projects
Debating History, Democracy, Development, and Education in Conflicted Societies
The Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) has launched a multi-year collaborative project with research institutes in...
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People
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow Director, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science