Welcome

The UW Center for West European Studies (CWES), founded in 1994, is one of eleven federally funded National Resource Centers for European or West European Studies in the US. Our mission is to enhance the quality of teaching and research on West European politics, society, and culture through outreach to universities, business, the general public, and the K-12 community.

The Center for West European Studies was again selected in 2006 as a National Resource Center for a fifth grant cycle (2006-2009). The center is located in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS), home to seven other Title VI centers, all of which work with CWES on the JSIS outreach team.