FSI scholars produce research aimed at creating a safer world and examing the consequences of security policies on institutions and society. They look at longstanding issues including nuclear nonproliferation and the conflicts between countries like North and South Korea. But their research also examines new and emerging areas that transcend traditional borders – the drug war in Mexico and expanding terrorism networks. FSI researchers look at the changing methods of warfare with a focus on biosecurity and nuclear risk. They tackle cybersecurity with an eye toward privacy concerns and explore the implications of new actors like hackers.
Along with the changing face of conflict, terrorism and crime, FSI researchers study food security. They tackle the global problems of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation by generating knowledge and policy-relevant solutions.
Daniel Schatz
The Europe Center
Encina Hall, 2nd Floor
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
The Europe Center
Encina Hall, 2nd Floor
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
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daniel@danielschatz.se.
Anna Lindh Fellow (Spring 2011)
Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, Humboldt University of Berlin
Daniel Schatz is a Visiting Anna Lindh Researcher at the Europe Center and a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Schatz’s doctoral dissertation, “The Politics of Foreign Policy Change: An Analysis of Sweden’s Middle East Policy 1996-2006” examines the dynamics of foreign policy change by analyzing changes in Sweden’s foreign policy towards Israel and the Palestinians. His main research interests are international relations, foreign policy analysis, foreign policy change, European and Scandinavian politics, the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Prior to joining Stanford University, Schatz’s professional appointments include positions at the European Parliament, the UN Headquarters, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, the World Jewish Congress Headquarters and the Canadian Embassy in Stockholm. He was nominated as a Candidate for Sweden's Parliament in 2006 and 2010.
Schatz is an editorial page contributor in Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s largest dailies. His articles and opinion pieces on contemporary international affairs appear regularly in European and international newspapers. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Political Science and European Studies from the University of Lund and has completed studies in International Relations the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York University. He speaks Swedish, English, Polish, German, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Symposium about the March 2011 Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake
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Please join us on The Great Tohoku, Japan Disaster - Symposium Iand The Great Tohoku, Japan Disaster - Symposium II for two evenings devoted to an examination of and conversation about the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake in northern Honshu, Japan, and the subsequent tsunami and nuclear accident. In talks and panel discussions, experts from the School of Earth Sciences and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies will focus on what happened, the impacts of the events, and what the future holds for Japan and other earthquake- and tsunami-zone regions of the world.
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The Great Tohoku, Japan Disaster
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Please join us on April 25 and 26 for two evenings devoted to an examination of and conversation about the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake in northern Honshu, Japan, and the subsequent tsunami and nuclear accident. In talks and panel discussions, experts from the School of Earth Sciences and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies will focus on what happened, the impacts of the events, and what the future holds for Japan and other earthquake- and tsunami-zone regions of the world.
APRIL 25 PARTICIPANTS
Moderator:
Pamela A. Matson is the Chester Naramore Dean of the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies at Stanford, and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.
Panelists:
Gregory Beroza is the Wayne Loel Professor in the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences and chair of the Department of Geophysics. He works to develop and apply techniques for analyzing seismograms—recordings of seismic waves—in order to understand how earthquakes work and the hazard they pose to engineered structures.
Gregory G. Deierlein is the John A. Blume Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford. His research focuses on improving limit states design of constructed facilities through the development and application of nonlinear structural analysis methods and performance-based design criteria.
Katherine Marvel is the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Perry Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford. Her research interests include energy security and nuclear nonproliferation, renewable energy technologies, energy security, nuclear power and nonproliferation, sustainable development, and public understanding of science.
For more information, please visit the symposium website.
William R. Hewlett Teaching Center
Auditorium 200
370 Serra Mall
Stanford Campus
Pamela A. Matson
Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences and FSI Senior Fellow
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Stanford University
Gregory Beroza
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Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Gregory G. Deierlein
Director
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Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University
Katherine D. Marvel
Perry Fellow
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Center of International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Conference in Jerusalem engages European, US, and Middle East scholars on democracy
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The Europe Center at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is proud to announce its major international conference on “Democracy in Adversity and Diversity” (May 18-19, 2011, Jerusalem). This conference – co-sponsored and hosted by the Center’s project partner, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute – is designed to engage global, profound, and heretofore considered intractible problems of divided societies, as well as today’s crises events of the Arab world in the greater Middle East and North Africa. With US, European, and NATO command forces engaged in the region, The Europe Center recognizes shared concern across the transatlantic community, and brings its Stanford senior research affiliates as well as international partner scholars to illuminate the immediate as well as long-term points of contention, and prospects for meaningful peace and reconciliation.
The Europe Center’s conference on “Democracy in Adversity and Diversity” includes
sessions on the following critical subjects:
- In Search of What Democracy Is and Should Be: Contemporary Challenges to democratic ideas/formations
- Institutional Forms of Contemporary Democracies: Translating Democratic Theory into Practice
- The Challenge of Managing Diversity in Contemporary Democracies
- Civil Societies and Democratic Quality and Efficacy
- Democracy and Development
- Democratic Transitions and Recessions: The International Dimension
The participants include leading scholars and policy analysts:
- Dan Banik, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo
- Bashir Bashir, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
- Nancy Bermeo, Nuffield College, Oxford University
- Naomi Chazan, Hebrew University, Academic College of Tel Aviv Yafo
- Amir Eshel, Stanford University, The Europe Center, FSI
- Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University FSI
- Ruth Gavison, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
- Amal Jamal, Tel Aviv University
- Michael Karayanni, The Sacher Institute, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University
- Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto
- Stephen Krasner, Stanford University FSI
- Leonardo Morlino, University of Florence
- Gabriel Motzkin, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, University of Jerusalem
- Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Stanford University FSI
- Ramzi Suleiman, University of Haifa
- Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College, Oxford University
The Europe Center’s conference on “Democracy in Adversity and Diversity” is co-developed by Michael Karayanni and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, and co-sponsored by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. The conference is one of The Europe Center’s international partner projects run within the Center’s larger and multi-year program on “Reconciliation".
This project is conceived to address subjects of contention, and potentially reconciliation, in divided societies. The multi-year collaborative project is designed to develop, in successive stages, a full range of programming including international workshops, publications, and scholar exchange. Sponsored work will benefit scholarly, policy-oriented, and cultural relations. We especially seek to support the work of colleagues from a wide range of fields including the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and education.
Further information on The Europe Center’s multi-year program on “Reconciliation” may be found here.
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