{"id":965,"date":"2019-03-01T15:26:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/?p=965"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:27:55","slug":"a-european-perspective-on-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/2019\/03\/01\/a-european-perspective-on-american-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"A European Perspective on American Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Patrick Chamorel, Ph.D. – Senior Resident Scholar, Stanford University Center in Washington, DC<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Friday March 1, 2019
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/span>
\nAlternate Location: Guilford House First Floor Parlor, 11112 Bellflower Road, Cleveland<\/strong><\/span>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Throughout our history, the U.S. has been defined in part in opposition to Europe. But Europeans, accustomed to a different world, could see things in the United States that Americans might not.<\/strong>\u00a0Long before the Civil War, Tocqueville’s\u00a0Democracy in America<\/em>\u00a0highlighted the implications of American social equality (and its limits), and protestant religiosity. James Bryce’s\u00a0The American Commonwealth<\/em>\u00a0is the classic work on American government in the late 19th century. Both they and subsequent scholars wondered not just how the U.S. functioned but what that implied for Europe. That question became even more crucial after World War II created American hegemony, and in response\u00a0Jean-Jacques Servan Schreiber in 1967 wrote about The American Challenge. Part of the European response to that economic and social “challenge” \u2013 and to Europe’s history of deadly nationalisms – was to create a version of the U.S. \u2013 the EU (though with more powerful states and bureaucrats).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Trump administration has Europeans puzzling over the future of the U.S. as a partner, as leaders like Angela Merkel decide Europe can no longer rely on U.S. protection. But other issues are being revisited, such as how the U.S. economic model compares to others, and what Trump’s populism suggests about American political institutions and stability. Is the U.S. now more familiar, so less instructive? Dr. Chamorel will offer perspective and provoke discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n

All best regards,
\nJoe White
\nLuxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Our Guest<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Chamorel<\/strong>\u00a0is Senior Resident Scholar at the Stanford University Center in Washington DC. He teaches Political Science, with an emphasis on comparative American and European politics, public policy and political economy, as well as transatlantic relations. He has taught Transatlantic Relations on Stanford\u2019s California campus as well as French Politics at the Stanford in Paris campus. Over the last few years, he has been teaching a semester course and an intensive seminar at the Reims Euro-American campus of Sciences-Po Paris. In addition to Stanford, he has taught at the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz), George Washington University, and Claremont McKenna College where he was the Crown Visiting professor of Government (2002-2005). He was a Fellow of the Institute for Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC and the Hoover Institution at Stanford, as well as a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association (Offices of Harry Reid in the U.S. Senate and Norman Mineta in the House of Representatives).<\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Meet<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. This week we meet in Guilford House, the yellow building with a nice porch at 11112 Bellflower Road, just east of the Tinkham Veale University Center. The main entrance of Guilford faces east, towards the fountain that almost never is running, and the talk will be next to the entry hall. During most other weeks we will meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library; the room will always be announced in these e-mails and on our website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parking Possibilities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Guilford House is part of the “Mather Quad” and the logical parking options are those with the best access to that part of campus. These include on-street parking on Bellflower or East Boulevard; the underground garage next to Severance Hall; the surface lot on the Euclid Avenue side of the Church of the Covenant; and the Ford Road parking structure, on Ford Road between Euclid and Bellflower. We regret that there is no free parking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 8: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Problem of Domestic Violence.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Laura Voith<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.<\/p>\n

March 15: No Discussion, Spring Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 22: Germany\u2019s New Party Politics?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Andreas Sobisch<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Science, John Carroll University.<\/p>\n

March 29: Punishment Beyond Prison: The Effects of Collateral Sanctions.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Michael Shields<\/strong>, Researcher, Policy Matters Ohio.<\/p>\n

April 5: Budget Blues: Yes, It Can Get Worse.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Joe White<\/strong>, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy.<\/p>\n

April 12: The Polar Silk Road?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Kathryn C. Lavelle<\/strong>, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs.<\/p>\n

April 19: Managing in a Trumped-Up Economy.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Mark Sniderman<\/strong>, Executive-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School, and former Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.<\/p>\n

April 26: What Do We Know About the Health and Safety Effects of Marijuana: Medical, Recreational, or Otherwise?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Theodore Parran Jr. MD<\/strong>, Isabel and Carter Wang Professor and Chair in Medical Education and Associate Director, Rosary Hall at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

February 24, 2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If you would like to reply, submit items for inclusion, or not receive this weekly e-mail please send a notice to:<\/span>\u00a0padg@case.edu<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/span><\/h2>\n

How French Are France’s Problems?<\/span><\/p>\n

A Global Currents Discussion with Patrick Chamorel, Ph.D., Senior Resident Scholar at the Stanford Center in Washington D.C., Thursday February 28, 2019, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m., Mandel Center for Community Studies, Room 115, 11402 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH. This program is made possible by the generous support of Ms. Eloise Briskin and sponsored by the CWRU Center for Policy Studies. Free and open to the public.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The “yellow vest” demonstrations in France began in November as a response to a proposed gas tax increase. They quickly expanded to more violent protests against a wide range of perceived injustices perpetrated by non-responsive elites and the government of President Macron.<\/p>\n

The events fit a long French tradition of how to influence an unresponsive state. But many of the grievances, such as rising income inequality and worries about national identity, do not seem peculiarly French at all. So to what extent is the French conflict a harbinger for other countries, and to what extent is it peculiarly French? Patrick Chamorel earned both his university degree and Ph.D. from Sciences-Po in Paris and holds a Master in Public Law from the University of Paris. In the 1990s he served as a Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Industry and in the Policy Planning Office of the Prime Minister. But for more than two decades he has lived mainly in the United States, studying and teaching about U.S. politics, French politics, and transatlantic relations.<\/p>\n

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Tacking Into The Wind: Achieving Justice For Mass Atrocities In Difficult Times<\/span><\/p>\n

A discussion with Stephen Rapp, Distinguished Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\u2019s Center for Prevention of Genocide, Wednesday February 27, 2019, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59), CWRU School of Law, 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The “third wave” of international justice comes when victims and their advocates, armed with the information developed by UN mechanisms and NGO-led documentation programs, work with litigators and national investigation and prosecution authorities in third countries to use the legal tools developed at international and domestic courts to prosecute perpetrators of atrocity crimes over which the third countries have recognized bases for jurisdiction. This lecture examines how the \u201cthird wave\u201d serves as a mechanism to sail into the global headwinds that are currently pushing against international justice and human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Center for Policy Studies
\nPublic Affairs Discussion Group<\/strong><\/p>\n

A European Perspective on American Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Chamorel, Ph.D. – Senior Resident Scholar, Stanford University Center in Washington, DC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday March 1, 2019
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nAlternate Location: Guilford House First Floor Parlor, 11112 Bellflower Road, Cleveland<\/strong>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Throughout our history, the U.S. has been defined in part in opposition to Europe. But Europeans, accustomed to a different world, could see things in the United States that Americans might not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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