Initiatives

While the activities at CES-EUC are organized around a broad set of themes, its distinctive topical strengths include the study of European identity, Eastern enlargement, European constitution, economics and energy security, and women.

 

Over the next three years (2008-11) CES-EUC will focus its initiatives on the following themes.

Religion, Multiculturalism, and Diversity in Europe. With the enlargement of the EU and increasing religious, racial, and ethnic diversity within member states, what place do religious identifications and secular commitments have in defining the new Europe? And how do these transformations, among others facing the EU, affect the qualities of attachment to Europe and assessment of solidarity and diversity in shaping European culture, social relations, and governance?

European Security and Global Transformations. With increasing global integration, transformations in the relationship between environment and political economy, and new inequalities and forms of violence, the challenge to realizing various types of security within and beyond the EU has been substantially extended. What challenges does Europe face and what policies and practices does Europe suggest to a world confronting new issues in human security?

European Governance and Democracy. How might we understand and analyze the conditions that led to past institutions and rules of European governance, and how might these past practices, and democratic traditions and commitments of particular European publics and polities, influence future patterns of European governance and their global reflections and effects?

For lectures and conferences related to topics listed above, visit Events and Programs page.

For research projects related to topics listed above, visit Research Projects page.