Please join us at 4 PM on Wednesday, September 9, as we celebrate the release of The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective by our colleague Vivien A. Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Pardee School and Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe. In this masterful book, [Prof. […]
Join us for The Future of NATO and US Alliances: A Conversation with Amb. Jeff Flake. Amb. Flake spent eighteen years representing Arizona in Washington: twelve years in the House, six in the Senate. During his time in office, he built a reputation for principle over politics. After the Senate, he was tapped to serve […]
The goal of this workshop is to put BU’s historians, political theorists, and theory-oriented comparativists into closer conversation – please join us! Thursday September 10, 2026 • 12 to 1:30 PM “The Age of Hobsbawm” Emile Chabal, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Edinburgh Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Thursday, November […]
This discussion with Joseph Jerome, Senior Public Policy Manager at DuckDuckGo, and Erik Peinert, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University, took place on Monday, May 4, 2026, as part of a larger workshop entitled, “Can the EU Achieve Technological Sovereignty,” organized by Jean Monnet Chair Sofia Perez, Associate Professor of Political Science at […]
The Center for the Study of Europe is delighted to co-sponsor Architectures of the Apocalypse – an interdisciplinary conference for students and scholars of the Middle Ages, the ancient world, and the present day. All events at 121 Bay State Road unless otherwise indicated. For more information, including links to the program and registration pages, […]
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 […]
On Thursday, April 24, we welcomed Konstantinos Myrodias, Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, for a presentation of his new book, The Political Economy of the Eurozone’s Rollercoaster: Greece and Portugal from the Global Financial Crisis to Covid-19 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, […]
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, […]