On March 25-26, following the Council for European Studies meeting in Boston, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a workshop entitled Resilient Liberalism: European Political Economy Through Boom and Bust [download program]. The two-day workshop brought together the contributors to a forthcoming Cambridge University Press publication on the state of European political economy, co-edited […]
On Wednesday, March 21, Maurizio Ferrera and Anton Hemerijck took part in a luncheon discussion hosted by BU’s Center for the Study of Europe on the impact of the ongoing Eurozone crisis on European social policy. Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the University of Milan. He is also the President of […]
On March 5 and 6, 2012, a number of Boston University faculty took part in an international conference on human security at Boston University. The two-day event, entitled Liberty and Security in a Time of Global Reordering [download program], was organized by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University, in cooperation with the […]
“Ireland and the Euro” was the title of Wednesday’s luncheon discussion with Professor Brigid Laffan of Ireland, a leading scholar on the European Union, at BU’s Department of International Relations. Laffan, who is principal of the College of Human Sciences and professor of European politics at University College Dublin, is currently is a visiting fellow […]
Professor William Waters, Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, has been appointed Associate Director of Center for the Study of Europe effective January 1, 2012. Professor Waters’ role will be to oversee humanities-related events (in collaboration with other humanities faculty) as well as to help develop programs, grants, and events that […]
On October 26, John Campbell, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College and Professor of International Political Economy at the Copenhagen Business School gave two talks at BU in which he explored the question, “Where do the ideas come from over which policy makers fight?” Over lunch with faculty and graduate students, he discussed “The Politics […]
Beyond the debate on France’s decline and French “exceptionalism,” a question remains. Can France, and other countries of its stature, play a significant world role in the future? In his October 25 lecture at Boston University, Nicolas Tenzer, author of The World in 2030 and When France Disappears from the World, claimed that a significant role […]
On October 5, 2011, Ulrike Guerot, head of the Berlin Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), gave a luncheon talk for faculty and graduate students on the economic crisis in the European Union, which she framed as a crisis of leadership in Germany. Guerot’s visit follows the publication, by the ECFR, of […]
This week we are wrapping up a series of six podcasts on the “Political Cultures of the European Union.” The series of thirteen events was organized by Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, as part of the Institute for Human Sciences European […]
This week we bring you the fifth in a series of six podcasts on the “Political Cultures of the European Union”. The series of thirteen events was organized by Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, as part of the Institute for Human […]