Chaired by Arthur Goldhammer
Event Archive 2004-2005
Events are listed in reverse chronological order.
March 16
Malcolm McKinnon, CES Visiting Scholar
"Modernity and Globalization in Six Non-Western Cities"
Malcolm McKinnon, CES Visiting Scholar
"Modernity and Globalization in Six Non-Western Cities"
March 2
Reimut Zohlnhoefer, CES Visiting Scholar
"European Democracies' Fiscal Policy Adjustments to External Challenges: Theoretical Perspectives"
Reimut Zohlnhoefer, CES Visiting Scholar
"European Democracies' Fiscal Policy Adjustments to External Challenges: Theoretical Perspectives"
February 23
Philippe van Parijs, Harvard Visiting Professor of Philosophy
"How Europe Stumbled upon Brussels: On the Reluctant Birth of the Capital of the European Union and the Challenges it Faces..."
Philippe van Parijs, Harvard Visiting Professor of Philosophy
"How Europe Stumbled upon Brussels: On the Reluctant Birth of the Capital of the European Union and the Challenges it Faces..."
December 15
Yves Cohen, CES Visiting Scholar
"A History of Writing, Subjectivity and Government: Stalin and Other Leaders at Work in the 1930s"
Yves Cohen, CES Visiting Scholar
"A History of Writing, Subjectivity and Government: Stalin and Other Leaders at Work in the 1930s"
December 8
Kirsty Milne, CES Visiting Scholar
"Instant Protest, PR politics: the British Press on the Picket Line"
Kirsty Milne, CES Visiting Scholar
"Instant Protest, PR politics: the British Press on the Picket Line"
December 1
Reimut Zohlnhöfer, CES Visiting Scholar and
Herbert Obinger, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Politics of Privatization in the OECD, 1990-2000"
Reimut Zohlnhöfer, CES Visiting Scholar and
Herbert Obinger, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Politics of Privatization in the OECD, 1990-2000"
November 17
Dirk Bönker, CES Visiting Scholar
"Militarizing the Western World: Navalism, Empire, and State Formation in Germany and the U.S. before World War I"
Dirk Bönker, CES Visiting Scholar
"Militarizing the Western World: Navalism, Empire, and State Formation in Germany and the U.S. before World War I"
November 3
Susanne von Below, CES Visiting Scholar
"How Did Educational Institutions Evolve, and What Are the Repercussions of That Today?"
Susanne von Below, CES Visiting Scholar
"How Did Educational Institutions Evolve, and What Are the Repercussions of That Today?"
October 27
Renate Mayntz, CES Visiting Scholar
"Globalization and Global Governance in the Social Sciences"
Renate Mayntz, CES Visiting Scholar
"Globalization and Global Governance in the Social Sciences"
October 20
Anna Grzymala-Busse, CES Visiting Scholar
"Political Competition and the Post-Communist State"
Anna Grzymala-Busse, CES Visiting Scholar
"Political Competition and the Post-Communist State"
Speaker Archive 2004-2005
Susanne von Below
Prof. von Below is Assistant Professor in the Social Science Department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in sociology for a dissertation that analyzed the educational institutions of the sixteen German states and the correlation of these with educational opportunities. Her research interests are social stratification, education, institutions, and regional disparities. She has published two monographs and several articles on various aspects of education and the educational system, the school and work situation of migrants, the integration of ethnic groups, and policy aspects of these topics. Her current work analyzes the institutionalization of education and the role of social policy in a comparative perspective.
Dirk Bönker
Dirk Bönker is Assistant Professor at Duke University, specializing in the military history of the Western world. His research interests focus on militarism, warfare, and geopolitics in Germany and the United States since 1870. He is currently preparing a book-length study of navalism, militarization, and empire in these two countries before World War I. Bönker received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in Spring 2002. As a James Bryant Conant Fellow at CES, Bönker will be in residence during the academic year 2004-2005.
Dirk Bönker is Assistant Professor at Duke University, specializing in the military history of the Western world. His research interests focus on militarism, warfare, and geopolitics in Germany and the United States since 1870. He is currently preparing a book-length study of navalism, militarization, and empire in these two countries before World War I. Bönker received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in Spring 2002. As a James Bryant Conant Fellow at CES, Bönker will be in residence during the academic year 2004-2005.
David Coen
David Coen is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at University College London. Prior to joining UCL he was a Fellow at the London Business School (1997-2001), where he directed a study with the Max Planck Institute, "Bonn on Refining Regulatory Regimes: Utilities in Europe." He has also been a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Cologne (1996-1997). Coen is on the editorial board of Business Strategy Review and is the Chair of the Business and Government Research Network of International Political Studies Association (IPSA). He has published extensively and consults on European public policy, business-government relations and regulatory reform.
Yves Cohen
Yves Cohen is Directeur d'Études (Professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has edited books and special issues on the history of the welfare state, on historical, sociological and management researches about organization and on the history of science and technology. He is the author of Organiser à l'aube du taylorisme. La pratique d'Ernest Mattern chez Peugeot, 1906-1919 (2002 Prize "History of technology and industrial society" in France). He is completing a book on the comparative and critical history of authority, the art and psychology of leadership, and the cult of the leaders between the two wars, with cases studies in France (Peugeot, Henri Fayol) and in the Soviet Union (the Putilov works, Stalin as ruler).
Yves Cohen is Directeur d'Études (Professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has edited books and special issues on the history of the welfare state, on historical, sociological and management researches about organization and on the history of science and technology. He is the author of Organiser à l'aube du taylorisme. La pratique d'Ernest Mattern chez Peugeot, 1906-1919 (2002 Prize "History of technology and industrial society" in France). He is completing a book on the comparative and critical history of authority, the art and psychology of leadership, and the cult of the leaders between the two wars, with cases studies in France (Peugeot, Henri Fayol) and in the Soviet Union (the Putilov works, Stalin as ruler).
John Gillingham
Prof. Gillingham is the author of European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New market Economy? (2003), as well as numerous books, edited volumes, and articles dealing with the political economy of twentieth-century Europe. His current project has the working title "The European Union: What went wrong and how can it be fixed?"
Papers available for Prof. Gillingham's talk in pdf format.
Prof. Gillingham is the author of European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New market Economy? (2003), as well as numerous books, edited volumes, and articles dealing with the political economy of twentieth-century Europe. His current project has the working title "The European Union: What went wrong and how can it be fixed?"
Papers available for Prof. Gillingham's talk in pdf format.
- The European Union: Asia's Challenge
- The European Union: Facing up to the American Hyperpower
- The European Union and the Knowledge Economy
- Eastern Enlargement: the Morning After
- The European Union: What Next?
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Anna Grzymala-Busse's research concerns questions of democratic transitions, post-communist institutional development, political parties and party systems, ethnicity and nationalism, and state structure. Her book on the adaptation to democracy of authoritarian ruling parties after the collapse of communism, Redeeming the Communist Past, was published in 2002. Other work has been published in East European Politics and Societies, Comparative Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and as chapters in edited volumes. In 2001-02 she was a Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, where she began a new research project, on the expansion and changing capacities of the state in East Central Europe. She taught Research Design, States and Regimes in Comparative Perspective, East European Politics, and Party Politics in 2002-03.
She is writing a book entitled Political Competition and State Politicization, which examines the expansion of the post-communist state and tis takeover by political parties. She has completed two papers:" Transforming the Party-State: Formal Reform and Informal Practices," and "Party Competition and the Pace of State Reform." The latter is now under review, and both of these will contribute to the ongoing book project. She has also written "The New Dysfunctionalism? Paradoxes of EU Accession and the Postcommunist Candidate Countries," presented at the Council of Europeanists' Conference in March 2004.
Anna Grzymala-Busse's research concerns questions of democratic transitions, post-communist institutional development, political parties and party systems, ethnicity and nationalism, and state structure. Her book on the adaptation to democracy of authoritarian ruling parties after the collapse of communism, Redeeming the Communist Past, was published in 2002. Other work has been published in East European Politics and Societies, Comparative Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and as chapters in edited volumes. In 2001-02 she was a Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, where she began a new research project, on the expansion and changing capacities of the state in East Central Europe. She taught Research Design, States and Regimes in Comparative Perspective, East European Politics, and Party Politics in 2002-03.
She is writing a book entitled Political Competition and State Politicization, which examines the expansion of the post-communist state and tis takeover by political parties. She has completed two papers:" Transforming the Party-State: Formal Reform and Informal Practices," and "Party Competition and the Pace of State Reform." The latter is now under review, and both of these will contribute to the ongoing book project. She has also written "The New Dysfunctionalism? Paradoxes of EU Accession and the Postcommunist Candidate Countries," presented at the Council of Europeanists' Conference in March 2004.
Renate Mayntz
Renate Mayntz studied at Wellesley College, USA (B.A. 1950), and the Free University Berlin (Dr. phil. 1953). She then did full-time research work at the UNESCO Institute of Social Research, Cologne (1953-1957), followed by grant-financed research work in Berlin and a year as Rockefeller Fellow in the United States. She was appointed Full Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin in 1965, at the Postgraduate School of Administrative Sciences in Speyer in 1971, and at the University of Cologne in 1973. She founded the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne in 1985 and served as its director from 1985 until her retirement in 1997.
Renate Mayntz studied at Wellesley College, USA (B.A. 1950), and the Free University Berlin (Dr. phil. 1953). She then did full-time research work at the UNESCO Institute of Social Research, Cologne (1953-1957), followed by grant-financed research work in Berlin and a year as Rockefeller Fellow in the United States. She was appointed Full Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin in 1965, at the Postgraduate School of Administrative Sciences in Speyer in 1971, and at the University of Cologne in 1973. She founded the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne in 1985 and served as its director from 1985 until her retirement in 1997.
Kirsty Milne
Kirsty Milne is a columnist and editorial-writer for The Scotsman, working in Edinburgh and London. A former assistant editor of the New Statesman, she has written widely on devolution, Tony Blair's government, and Britain's relations with the EU and the United States. Her research will look at the relationship between protest movements and party politics in the EU. She was a Nieman Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard during 2003-4, and has a first class degree in English from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Kirsty Milne is a columnist and editorial-writer for The Scotsman, working in Edinburgh and London. A former assistant editor of the New Statesman, she has written widely on devolution, Tony Blair's government, and Britain's relations with the EU and the United States. Her research will look at the relationship between protest movements and party politics in the EU. She was a Nieman Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard during 2003-4, and has a first class degree in English from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Lydia Morris
Lydia Morris has a first degree in Sociology and Politics from the University of Keele (UK), and a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics. She worked for a short time as a researcher in the voluntary sector and in local government in Britain, before moving to academic work - first at the Unversity of Swansea, then the University of Durham, and from 1990 to the present the University of Essex. Lydia Morris was made a full professor in 1995 and was Head of Department from 2001 to 2004.
Her research to date has covered economic restructuring, unemployment, gender and household relations, welfare rights, and most recently, migration and asylum in Europe. She is the author of four monographs, the most recent of which was 'Managing Migration: civic stratification and migrants rights'.
Lydia Morris has a first degree in Sociology and Politics from the University of Keele (UK), and a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics. She worked for a short time as a researcher in the voluntary sector and in local government in Britain, before moving to academic work - first at the Unversity of Swansea, then the University of Durham, and from 1990 to the present the University of Essex. Lydia Morris was made a full professor in 1995 and was Head of Department from 2001 to 2004.
Her research to date has covered economic restructuring, unemployment, gender and household relations, welfare rights, and most recently, migration and asylum in Europe. She is the author of four monographs, the most recent of which was 'Managing Migration: civic stratification and migrants rights'.
Reimut Zohlnhöfer
Reimut Zohlnhöfer is Assistant Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he teaches courses on Comparative Politics, Political Economy and German Politics. He is co-editor of "Das rot-grüne Projekt. Eine Bilanz der Regierung Schröder ('The Red-Green Coalition in Germany, 1998-2002')" (Westdeutscher Verlag 2003) and author of "Die Wirtschaftspolitik der Ära Kohl ('Economic Policy in the Kohl Era')" (Leske+Budrich 2001) as well as a number of articles on German economic policy and the Italian party system. His current research focuses on the fiscal policies governments in Western Europe adopt in response to the external challenges of growing economic integration and socio-economic changes. As a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Zohlnhöfer is in residence at CES during the academic year 2004-05.
Reimut Zohlnhöfer is Assistant Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he teaches courses on Comparative Politics, Political Economy and German Politics. He is co-editor of "Das rot-grüne Projekt. Eine Bilanz der Regierung Schröder ('The Red-Green Coalition in Germany, 1998-2002')" (Westdeutscher Verlag 2003) and author of "Die Wirtschaftspolitik der Ära Kohl ('Economic Policy in the Kohl Era')" (Leske+Budrich 2001) as well as a number of articles on German economic policy and the Italian party system. His current research focuses on the fiscal policies governments in Western Europe adopt in response to the external challenges of growing economic integration and socio-economic changes. As a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Zohlnhöfer is in residence at CES during the academic year 2004-05.