Austrian & Central European Program
The Forum on Contemporary Europe's Austrian & Central European Program seeks to advance relations between the United States and Austria and Central Europe. In collaboration with the University of Vienna, it will bring together students and faculty from Stanford University and the University of Vienna to bro ...

Iberian Studies Program
The Iberian Studies Program is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote relational knowledge of the various cultures of the Iberian Peninsula.

Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region
With generous support from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Forum on Contemporary Europe is able to act on long term plans to launch research and public programs on Sweden and the pressing issues of the Scandinavian and Baltic region. Special emphasis will be placed on developments in Sweden and the ...

Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
The European Union and the United States, the world's leaders in the fields of innovation and high technology, share a common set of values based on a commitment to democracy, human rights, market economics, and the rule of law. But EU and US approaches to many technology related issues in law and policy di ...

Comparative Regulatory Approaches to Biotechnology
This project includes comparative regulatory structures in advanced industrial states and the implication of differing regulatory practices for trade rules.

Comparative Study of Farm Policy Reform in the EU and US
This project studies the political economy of the reform process, the links with the reform of the international trade rules for agriculture and the importance of political developments in the EU and US.

Democracy in the European Union
This project studies the perceived lack of democratic accountability in the European Union (EU), often referred to as the EU's democratic deficit.

Europe, America and the multilateral trade system
This project examines the complex relationships between the US and the EU in the development of the multilateral trade system and the prospects for constructive negotiations in any new WTO Round. Topics investigated include the changing position of the EU in the multilateral trade process, the implication for t ...

Institutional reform in the EU
The project focuses on economic modeling of institutional change in the Europe Union.