Austrian & Central European Program
The Austrian & Central European Program hosts a visiting professor at Stanford to teach a course in his/her specialty for a one-year term while also working closely with FCE to promote specific research topics pertaining to Austria and Central Europe.

Contemporary History and the Future of Memory and Reconciliation
In spring 2009, the Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) and the Division on Languages, Civilizations and Literatures (DLCL) delivered the first part of its multi-year research and public policy program on Contemporary History and the Future of Memory.  The program explored how communities that have unde ...

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
The Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region is comprised of several components, which together are designed to make the Forum, and the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, a crucial nexus for new thinking and influential public programming on Sweden and the region.

Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) aims to promote a balanced approach to today's and future transatlantic tech law issues and to focus scholarly attention on these issues by involving academics, businesspeople, legislators, and policy makers from both sides of the Atlantic.

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.

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. For the current revision of the Nice treaty, there are inferences between the domestic and European level, most obviously when referendums are carried. This time, a convention made a proposal for rev ...

The Cult of the Cross in Byzantium
My dissertation discusses the cult of the cross in the Byzantine Empire from the reign of its first emperor Constantine the Great (r. 306-337) to the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204, with a particular focus on the political pressures that underlay the constantly changing manifestations of the cult. ...

The Origins of Democratic Institutions in Europe
What explains the variation in the democratic institutions of contemporary European and North American societies? The implications of electoral rules and legislative institutions for social and economic outcomes are well established.  For example, proportional electoral rules are associated with ...