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April 26-May 3, 1999Volume 27, Number 30




























Merger creates Council of European Studies

In a change that reflects the transformations occurring on the global stage, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) is merging two of its councils -- one devoted to Western Europe and the other to Russian and Eastern Europe -- into a single Council for European Studies (CES).

The merger, which was approved at a recent meeting of the YCIAS executive committee, will formally go into effect on July 1.

The decision to merge the two councils has been under discussion since the fall and reflects the changing political, social and economic environment in Europe, according to YCIAS Director Gustav Ranis.

"Changes on the European continent have been breathtaking since the end of the Cold War and this merger allows us much greater flexibility in expanding our activities and creating new opportunities," says Ranis. "It is high time that the wall came down at YCIAS as well."

This merger, he adds, is conceived as the necessary first step in the building of a strong European studies program at Yale that will improve all facets of the University's mission, from outreach to the undergraduate curriculum to graduate education and faculty research.

The CES will act as a catalyst for the creation of new and innovative course offerings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as stimulating new flows of students and researchers from Yale to Europe and vice versa, notes Ranis.

For example, Auke Haagsma, a lawyer by profession, is being sent to Yale by the European Commission and will teach courses in the political economy aspects of European integration and the European Union's place in post-war European development.

The new council will also build on existing programmatic strength, particularly pertaining to Russia and Eastern Europe, which currently have both an undergraduate major and a graduate program. Curricular innovations -- such as better coordination of existing offerings, including creation of new team-taught pan-European courses -- are also under consideration.

"We recognize that there continues to be a difference between East and West, and that sterile homogenization into a single European framework is not desirable," says Ranis.

He adds, however, that having a larger and more comprehensive program on European studies should also facilitate the process of applying to the federal government's international education program (Title VI) to become a National Resource Center.

In late September of 1999, CES will hold a conference on "The Future of the European Union." Topics will include the accession of new members from Eastern Europe, European security in the post-Cold War era and institutional reform of the European Union. The conference will include Yale and outside faculty, as well as figures of public eminence, including the European Union ambassador to the United States.

The CES will be co-chaired by Ivo Banac, the Bradford Durfee Professor of History and current chair of the Council on Russian and East European Studies, and by Geoffrey Garrett, professor of political science and chair of the Council on West European Studies.


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