Human Rights Protection in Europe: Between Strasbourg and Luxembourg
Although Europe has been considered a leading example for regional human rights mechanisms, these mechanisms are far from simple, due to the complexity of the European legal system and the actors involved. To understand this, a brief historical overview of the European system is necessary.

Europe Digest
A list of issues on Europe for the year 2010.

Why War Has Become Obsolete in Europe
It is quite remarkable that a continent, which for much of its modern history was embroiled in internecine warfare, now seems to be one of the most stable regions of the world. Since the end of World War II, no wars have been fought in Europe. That is if one excludes the Balkan wars of the 1990s, something I wi ...

Digests
The SPICE Digest was created to provide educators with background information on a wide variety of topics related to Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the global environment, and international political economy.

European Answers to the Financial Crisis: Social Banking and Social Finance
As a result of the crisis, social banking and social finance have become important trends among bank customers in Europe. In fact, European social banks are the big winners of the crisis, growing by more than 20% per year and doubling their assets between 2007 and 2010. The crisis transformed social banks from ...

About SPICE
The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) serves as a bridge between Stanford University and K-14 schools by developing multidisciplinary curriculum materials on international themes.

About the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) is Stanford University's primary center for innovative interdisciplinary research on major international issues and challenges.

The Ethnic Question: How Do We Integrate Today's Immigrants In Our Globalized World
We live in a period of unprecedented scope of immigration and globalization, facing great numbers of peoples, and also cultural and social difference and strains on welfare economies. Recent headlines in the US about local, state, and federal immigration law expose anxieties and confusion, and they also highli ...

Political Succession in North Korea
For the past year, there has been intense interest and speculation regarding the rise of Kim Jong-un, youngest son of North Korea’s current leader Kim Jong-il, as successor to his father. A handover of power to the younger Kim would constitute a successive third generation of rule by the same political family.

Japan's Territorial Disputes
Japan refers to this group of islets as Takeshima, and South Korea calls them Dokdo or Tokdo or Tokto (depending on the Romanization system used). Control over the islets means control over fishing grounds and possible undersea energy resources.