The Center for West European Studies was founded in 1994, and is one of eleven federally funded National Resource Centers for European or West European Studies in the United States. The Center's interdisciplinary programs work to advance its mission of enhancing the quality of teaching and research on West European politics, society, and culture through outreach to universities, business, the general public, and the K-14 community.
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September 21, 2016
Posted by: rldavis
Vanessa Quince, a UW Ph.D. student in Political Science, is a recipient of the Center for West European Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS). With this funding, she
September 1, 2016
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August 24, 2016
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This summer dramatic political changes and a series of terrorist acts ripped across Europe and Turkey. On June 23, Britain voted to leave the European Union. This single decision upended
August 18, 2016
Posted by: Monique Thormann
Lauren Moses (B.A., International Studies, 2016) is featured in the article “The Presidential Election, the Liberal Arts and an Engaged Citizenry” in The Huffington Post for her prize-winning essay on how her
June 29, 2016
Posted by: rldavis
The Center for West European Studies has published profiles of several recent FLAS fellows. Click on the links below to read the profiles. Isatou Jallow, Law. Language: French. Jennifer Ryder,
June 29, 2016
Posted by: Monique Thormann
June 27, 2016
Posted by: Monique Thormann
Thursday’s [June 23, 2016] vote puts Britain in a weak leadership position at a time when collaboration and innovation are needed to keep up the neighborhood writes Professor of Scandinavian
June 24, 2016
Posted by: Monique Thormann
Daniel Chirot, the Jackson School’s Herbert J. Ellison professor of Russian and Eurasian studies at the University of Washington, was interviewed by several media as part of global reactions to
June 1, 2016
Posted by: Jeremy D Pritchard
The European Union is broadly considered to act as a normative power, seeking to promote its values, both within its member states and beyond its geographical borders. This emphasis on
May 25, 2016
Posted by: Jessica Beyer
On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the Safe Harbor law in an action that could be argued to be the single most important legislation