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Observations from a Defense Study Trip to Lithuania
June 2019
Significant progress has been made in improving the defense situation in the Baltic states since 2014, but NATO can take some relatively modest steps to further enhance its deterrence and defense...
Stop the Low-Yield Trident Nuclear Warhead
June 2019
On Tuesday [June 4], the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces debated the draft Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.It voted out, on party lines, language that prohibits...
NATO’s Ukraine Challenge
June 2019
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Brussels on June 4 and 5, where he met with the leadership of the European Union and NATO.
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.
Extending New START is a no-brainer—And yet, we can’t count on it
February 2019
The Trump administration has finished off the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a treaty mortally wounded by Russia’s deployment of a banned intermediate-range missile.
The blame game begins over the INF Treaty’s demise, and Washington is losing
January 2019
In December, Secretary of State Pompeo said Russia had 60 days to come back into compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
Will There Be No Brexit Deal?
January 2019
Q&A with Christophe Crombez, a senior research scholar at The Europe Center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Written with Melissa De Witte.
Ukraine, nuclear weapons and the trilateral statement 25 years later
January 2019
Today, January 14, marks the 25th anniversary of the Trilateral Statement. Signed in Moscow by President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, the...
Is there a glimmer of hope for the INF treaty?
January 2019
On December 21, the United Nations General Assembly voted down a Russian-proposed resolution calling for support for the INF Treaty.
Timothy Josling dies at age 78
December 2018
Timothy Josling, a professor emeritus at the former Food Research Institute and an affiliate of The Europe Center known for his encyclopedic knowledge of international agricultural policy, died on...
Three new center directors look to the future at FSI
October 2018
FSI's three new center directors, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Colin Kahl, and David Lobell, outline their vision.
Steven Pifer, new CISAC and TEC fellow, to focus on international security
September 2018
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...
Anna Grzymala-Busse Appointed New Director of The Europe Center
May 2018
The Europe Center is pleased to announce that Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse will assume its directorship on September 1, 2018.
Featured Faculty Research: Dan Edelstein
January 2018
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.
December 2017
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...
Stanford study examines political reckoning of authoritarians in the face of crises
December 2017
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.
New Stanford research explores immigrants’ decision to return to Europe during historical Age of Mass Migration
September 2017
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...
The Magnitsky Act - Russian lawyer in Trump Jr. meeting lobbied against it; why does Putin hate it so much?
July 2017
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
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...
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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 
