Please join us for a book talk with Erik Peinert, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. Peinert’s research focuses on the political economy of advanced industrial states and the politics of economic policymaking, particularly in the domain of competition and market power. His August 2025 book, Monopoly Politics: Price Competition, Learning, and the Evolution […]
Join us for a presentation by CSE Visiting Researcher Francesca Vessia. Vessia is Full Professor of Commercial Law, Competition Law, and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Bari Aldo Moro since 2006, teaching undergraduate and graduate programs. She holds a PhD in Commercial Law and is a lawyer, as well as the author, co-author, […]
Join us for a panel discussion with former senior US diplomat and OSCE official Douglas Wake and international relations scholar Ida Manton. Both have extensive professional experience working with the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The OSCE is the guardian of the Helsinki Charter, the world’s largest regional security arrangement. Also participating is Igor […]
This panel discussion with Andrea Cayley, Executive Director of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law’s Washington D.C. Programs, and Jelena Subotic, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University, took place at Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. It was moderated by Vesko Garčević, […]
Join us for a lecture by CSE Visiting Researcher Hans Kundnani. Kundnani was previously the director of the Europe programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, a senior Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He […]
Join us for a book talk with Konstantinos Myrodias, author of The Political Economy of the Eurozone’s Rollercoaster: Greece and Portugal from the Global Financial Crisis to Covid-19 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Myrodias is Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Moderated […]
This book launch and discussion with Carol Ferrara, sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at Emerson College, and Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Associate Professor of Religion at Vassar College, took place at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Thursday, February 13, 2025. The event was moderated by Kimberly Arkin, Associate Professor of Anthropology and hosted by […]
The goal of this workshop is to put BU’s historians, political theorists, and theory-oriented comparativists into closer conversation – please join us! Thursday, March 27 • 12:30 to 2 PM A Conversation about Finance and Anti-Democratic Politics Michael McCarthy • Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of Community Studies at the University of California Santa […]
Join us for a book talk with John S. Micgiel, author of Project Eagle: The Top-Secret OSS Operation that Sent Polish Spies Behind Enemy Lines in World War II. Micgiel has served as director of the Institute on East Central Europe, associate director of the Harriman Institute, executive director of the Institute for the Study […]
Join us for a book launch & discussion of Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce? with co-authors Vesko Garčević, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe and Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, and Kenneth Morrison, Professor of History (Chair in Modern Southeast European History) […]