This week we bring you the fourth in a series of 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 […]
This week we bring you the third 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 […]
This week we continue a series of six podcasts on the “Political Cultures of the European Union”. The series of 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 Commission sponsored project […]
In recent months, we have been digging through the Institute for Human Sciences archives for podcast material. This week we shift gears and kick off a new series on the “Political Cultures of the European Union”. The series of 13 events was organized by Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of […]
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On April 19, 2006, the former German Defense Minister Volker Rühe gave a lecture on the transatlantic relationship. The event was co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut Boston and the American Council on Germany. Thomas Berger, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University, responded. Echoing Chris Patten’s all for a renewed partnership between the US […]
The April 4, 2006 visit of Angelos Pangratis, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States, to Boston provided an occasion for the IHS to turn its attention to the impact of China on the transatlantic relationship. From 1998 to 2003, Pangratis was Head of Unit responsible for relations with […]
On March 14, 2006, Mark Leonard, Director of Foreign Policy at the Center for European Reform in London, like Chris Patton, a passionate Atlanticist, gave a provocative lecture based on his book, Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century. Leonard argued that Europe’s problems, demographic and otherwise, as well as the legitimacy crisis posed by […]
On February 2, 2006, the Institute for Human Sciences hosted a lecture by Christopher Patten, Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities. Patten’s book, Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in a New Century, formed the basis of his remarks. In a speech peppered with anecdotes drawn from his distinguished political career, Chris Patten put […]
On December 1, 2005, Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow at The New America Foundation, and Aleksander Smolar, Senior Research Fellow at CNRS in Paris and President of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw, debated The Future of Europe. Both agreed that the European Union was in crisis and that the dream of political union is […]