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Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955

Edited by Seán Hand and Steven T. Katz Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant post‑war Jewish community that numbered […]

The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience

Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday Edited by Michael Zank, Boston University and Ingrid Anderson, Boston University In this tribute to Steven T. Katz on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson present sixteen original essays written by senior and junior scholars in comparative religion, […]

POV: Making Climate Change a Moral Issue

Henrik Selin on Why We Should Listen to Pope Francis For too long, ideologues, deniers, and vested interests have prevented an appropriate, righteous response to the grave dangers of climate change. Now, the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, has a retort to those who still question if climate change is real: […]

Greece’s Misery: “A Fraternity in Which Everyone Gets Hazed”

Vivien Schmidt questions the latest bailout deal This week’s deal extending a third bailout to debt-racked Greece in exchange for further austerity measures averted the country’s having to abandon the euro, and the possibly devastating consequences that would have brought. But Vivien Schmidt says it’s a Pyrrhic victory. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and a […]

European Union and Environmental Governance by Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University and an expert on environmental policy and sustainable development, has a new book in Routledge’s “Global Institutions” series entitled European Union and Environmental Governance. Co-authored with Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire, the book continues his earlier work […]

Vivien Schmidt Wins British Journal of Politics and International Relations Prize

Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, was recently awarded a prize for best paper published in BJPIR (the British Journal of Politics and International Relations) 2013, for a paper entitled, “Speaking to the Markets or to the People? A Discursive Institutionalist Analysis of […]

Vivien Schmidt at 2015 European Conference at Harvard: Europe in the World

On February 27-28, the members of the European Clubs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and Harvard Business School and the European Affairs Society at Tufts Fletcher School organized the first transatlantic edition of their European Conference: Europe in the World. Vivien Schmidt moderated the first plenary session: Towards a New Europe in the World. Speakers […]

Vivien Schmidt wins Horizon 2020 Grant

Vivien Schmidt and Cornel Ban have become key researchers in the EU Commission funded grant: HORIZON 2020 ­ ENLIGHTEN ­ 2015-2018: European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: The Role of European Networks. ENLIGHTEN is a collaborative project coordinated at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). In addition to BU professors Schmidt and Ban, the project […]

Schmidt’s Democracy in Europe Named One of One Hundred Books on Europe to Remember

Vivien Schmidt’s 2006 book, Democracy in Europe (Oxford University Press) has been included in a comprehensive selection of 100 Books on Europe to Remember. The list includes academic, intellectual and political works on the European idea and the development of the European integration process, taking into account the vast geographical, linguistic and intellectual spectrum of […]