http://fce.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from FCEen-usPublic domainhttp://fce.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://fce.stanford.edu/60http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1620This conference on Austria and Central Europe Since 1989: Legacies and Future Prospects is the third in the series of biannual international conferences to study the political and cultural landscape of Austria and Central Europe since 1945.]]>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1620http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1558The Transatlantic Academy is seeking candidates to serve as resident fellows. A joint project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation, the Transatlantic Academy is located at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. The Academy brings together scholars from Europe and North America to work on a single set of issues facing the transatlantic community. It is an interdisciplinary institution which is open to all social science disciplines. Fellows will be resident for ten months beginning in October 2009. The Academy welcomes applications from scholars working on the theme of 'Turkey and Its Neighbors: Implications for the Transatlantic Relationship.']]>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1558http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1527The Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn invites applications for the ZEI Fellowship from researchers with expertise in European Studies in all disciplines. The fellowship is awarded for a period of up to 12 months starting October 1st, 2008.]]>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1527http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1467Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and the Stanford Law School.]]>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1467http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1374This international conference will examine the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, a trade that has rapidly expanded since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. The conference will bring together scholars, policy experts, government officials and NGO analysts to discuss the issue from the economic, legal and human rights perspectives. Special attention will be devoted to strategies to combat the problem and address the needs of the victimized females.]]>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1374http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1236The Forum on Contemporary Europe is pleased to announce the inauguration of its research and public dissemination program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region. With generous support from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Forum's Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region 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 region's trans-Atlantic relations, and on the evolution of domestic and international policy, culture, science, trade, and law in emerging global relations.]]>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1236http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1237The Forum on Contemporary Europe, at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Anna Lindh Fellowship for the study of Scandinavia, the Baltic region and northern Europe's role in trans-Atlantic relations. The fellowships are part of the Forum's new Sweden, Scandinavia, and Baltic region program whose aim is to promote research on this region. The Anna Lindh Fellowship is designed to bring fellows from Sweden to Stanford University for short periods of research, library and archive consultation, and collaboration with Stanford faculty and community.]]>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1237http://fce.stanford.edu/news/1195Joan Laporta, the president of Futbol Club Barcelona, talked to an overflowing crowd at the Arrillaga Family Sports Center on May 7, 2007 about his organization's role in global sports and society.]]>Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/1195http://fce.stanford.edu/news/993The Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) is pleased to announce the availability of advanced graduate student fellowships to support short-term research at the University of Vienna in Austria. The FCE graduate student fellowships are part of the Stanford-Austria scholarly exchange and public event program hosted jointly by FCE at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and the University of Vienna.]]>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/993http://fce.stanford.edu/news/988On February 7, in Vienna, FSI Director Chip Blacker gave a distinguished scholar lecture on "U.S.-European Relations after the Iraq War." The talk, which was held at the Renner Institut and co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, focused on critical relations between Europe and the U.S. that extend beyond the current administration in Washington.]]>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/news/988http://fce.stanford.edu/events/5368RSVP Required
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Member of the European Parliament; President of the Party of European Socialists; Former Prime Minister of Denmark]]>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:39:49 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/events/5368http://fce.stanford.edu/events/5356RSVP Required
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]]>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:18:45 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/publications/21404http://fce.stanford.edu/publications/21403in Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005
Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of rights in a world made up of radically different national communities. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. Rights protect the benefits of cultural diversity, while recognizing the universal dignity that every human life deserves. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how human rights can help to bring moral order to an otherwise divided world.]]>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:11:50 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/publications/21403http://fce.stanford.edu/publications/21402Stanford University Press in "India After a Decade of Economic Reforms", 2005
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Why were European economies able to pursue the simultaneous commitment to full employment and welfare state expansion during the first decades of the postwar period? This book highlights the critical importance of a political exchange between unions and governments, premised on wage moderation in exchange for the expansion of social services and transfers. The strategies pursued by these actors in these political exchanges are influenced by existing wage bargaining institutions, the character of monetary policy and by the level and composition of social policy transfers.]]>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:00:42 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/publications/21401http://fce.stanford.edu/publications/21400in Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory, Springer, 2006
Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war today is far from traditional. War has been deeply affected in recent years by a variety of social and technological developments in areas such as international terrorism, campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the global human rights movement, economic globalization, and military technology. This book asks whether just war theory is adequate to the challenges these developments pose. Just war theory provides rules for determining when it is justified to fight a war. But some have argued that the nature of contemporary war makes these rules obsolete. For example, genocidal and aggressive regimes may require the use of military force that is not strictly in self-defense, as just war theory requires. In addition, the theory provides rules for determining what the limits are on justified conduct in war. But the random violence of terrorism and the deliberately inflicted violence of torture seem endemic to our age, yet take us beyond the limits set by these rules of conduct in war. By carefully examining the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives, the essays in this book explore this set of issues with insight and clarity.]]>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:52:48 PSThttp://fce.stanford.edu/publications/21400