Three CES Senior Thesis Grant Recipients Sara Bobok, Emily Brothers and Julia Fine were awarded the prestigious Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for their outstanding research. These students spent their junior summer in Europe to conduct research for their senior thesis and were nominated by their advisors including Maya Jasanoff, CES Resident Faculty, and Nicolas Prevelakis, CES Local Affiliate.
"The church embodies a civilization, and had it been erased from the earth ... the loss would have been irretrievable," says Art Goldhammer in a moving tribute in The Nation. (Photo Credit: Reuters / Benoit Tessier)
Daniel Ziblatt analyzes the worldwide movement toward autocracy and concludes American democracy is safe — for now
Throughout the 1990s, central and eastern European states expressed their wish to become members of the Western community and its institutions and to guard against a resurgent Russia. Based on newly declassified documents, CES Associate Mary Elise Sarotte explores the history of NATO accession. (Photo Credit: Jeff Taylor/Reuters)
What is the state of Greek democracy since the economic crisis? In this paper, CES Visiting Scholar Dimitri Sotiropoulos assesses the effects of populism and corruption on democracy in Greece today.
Bart Bonikowski discusses his work on nationalism with The Sociocast Project.
To research schools in Germany, Stefan Beljean, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and CES Graduate Student Affiliate, went to the source
This op-ed byDaniel Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky is worth rereading in these extraordinary times. "Crises are a time-tested means of subverting democracy."
How the Gilets Jaunes Brought the French President Low
Leaving the EU without consequences was always a fantasy, and the terms of the Brexit agreement reveal the reality, says Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and CES Resident Faculty.
