Current Research Interests

Transatlantic Relations after 1945 and German Foreign Policy

International Monetary Policy, with a focus on EMU

 

Book to be published in 2006:

Taming the Dragon: The EU and the US in the Process of Negotiating China’s Integration into the World Trade System

 

Papers and Presentations since August 2003 (Arrival at Cornell University)

 

“Ever Challenging the Buck? The Euro and the Question of Power in International Monetary Governance,” 

1st EUI Alumni Conference Governing EMU: Political, Economic, Legal and Historical Perspectives, European University Institute, Florence October 3/4, 2003.


“Sharing the Burden of Leadership: Germany, the United States and Transatlantic Cooperation”, Lecture Series “After Iraq: Europe and the US”,

Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence October 13, 2003.

 

 “Conflicting Norms of Democracy:  The U.S., Europe, and the International Criminal Court“, DAAD Conference "DEMOCRACY - DEMOCRATIZATION", Minneapolis Campus of the University of Minnesota, May 7-8,  2004

 

“Regaining Autonomy: The German Government, the Bundesbank, and the Breakdown of “Bretton Woods”, 1965-1978,”
2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2, 2004.

 

“Security Exporters: Germany, the United States and Transatlantic Cooperation”,
Conference: History and Future of Transatlantic Relations September 3, 2004 , Columbia University, New York. 

 

 “Unravelling the Ties that Really Bind:  The Dissolution of the Transatlantic Monetary Order and the Creation of a European Monetary System, 1965-75”

Conference: The Atlantic Community Unravelling? States, Protest Movements, and the Transformation of US-European Relations, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (TN), Sept. 17-19, 2004.

 

Germany and the Collapse of the Bretton Woods System

Annual Conference, German Studies Association, Washington D.C., 10. Oktober 2004.

 

Exporting Security: German-American Relations after 9/11

Cornell University, Institute for German Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, 6. Mai 2005.

 

Ever Challenging the Buck? The Euro and the Question of Power in International Monetary Governance

Konferenz: Political and Economic Consequences of European Monetary Integration, University of Victoria, B.C. Canada, 18-19. August 2005

 

Markets, Power, and Global Governance in International Monetary Policy

Paper for a Book-Making Workshop Globalisierung. Forschungsstand und Perspektiven, ed. Stefan A. Schirm, Arnoldshain, 2.-4.November 2005

 

Germany & France after the Elections 2005, Institute for German Cultural Studies Workshop: Franco-German Dialogue & the New Europe, Cornell University, Ithaca, 19. November 2005 

 

Regaining Autonomy: The Federal Republic and Flexible Exchange Rates, Konferenz: Bretton Woods Revisited, Scripps College, Claremont, CA,  17.-18. Februar 2006.

 

How the EU negotiates Trade and Democracy in Asia: The Case of China’s Accession to the WTO, 20th IPSA World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, 10. Juli 2006.


Derzeitige Forschungsschwerpunkte

Internationale Beziehungen Deutschlands nach 1945 (insbes. zu den USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich und Italien)

 

Internationale Währungspolitik; insbesondere die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Euro-Zone

 

 

 

Habilitationsprojekt: 

 

DRACHENZÄHMUNG

Die USA und die EU in den Verhandlungen um die Integration der Volksrepublik China in das Welthandelssystem, 1986-2001