Andrew Moravcsik
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Andrew Moravcsik is a Professor
of Politics and director of the European Union Program at Princeton University
. He is known for his research on European integration
, international organization
s, human rights
, and American and European foreign policy, for developing the theory of liberal intergovernmentalism
, and for his work on liberal theories of international relations. He is a former policy-maker who currently serves as Nonresident Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution, Contributing Editor of Newsweek Magazine, and Book Review Editor (Europe) of Foreign Affairs
magazine.
He is married to the political scientist, international lawyer, university administrator and policy-maker Anne-Marie Slaughter
, with whom he has two sons.
in history from Stanford University
in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld
, Hamburg
, and Marburg in West Germany
. In 1982 he enrolled at the The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, from which he received a Master of Arts
degree in international relations
in 1984. In 1992 he obtained a Ph.D.
in political science
from Harvard University
and began teaching in the Department of Government. During his 12-year tenure in the department, Moravcsik became a Full Professor and founded Harvard's European Union program. He left the school in 2004 to assume a post at Princeton University, where he again founded an EU program.
n Deputy Prime Minister, press assistant at the Commission of the European Communities, and the editor of a foreign policy journal.
Since 2002, he has written over one hundred pieces of public commentary. These include dozens of articles and commentaries including two cover stories (in 2005 and 2007). He has also written for the Financial Times
, Foreign Affairs, and other publications. He has lectured about the European Union
at The Pentagon
, was a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation
, and has been quoted in multiple news sources, including
Deutsche Welle
,
International Herald Tribune
,
and USA Today
. He continues to engage in regular policy analysis and advising, currently focusing on EU-US burden-sharing, the democratic deficit in Europe, transatlantic relations, the future of the European Union, and Asian regionalism. During the academic year 2007-2008 he was a fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.
called "the most important work in the field" of modern European studies, attempts to explain why the member states of the European Union agreed to cede sovereignty to a supranational entity.
According to Google Scholar
, The Choice for Europe has been cited at least 1351 times as of June 2009.
At least five journal articles authored by Moravcsik have been cited more than 200 times: (cited 1145 times) (cited 699 times) (cited 723 times) (cited 379 times) (cited 220 times)
Moravcsik’s “liberal intergovernmentalist” theory of European integration is regarded as a plausible account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union. It stresses the issue-specific functional national interests of member states and goes on to analyze the interstate bargains they strike among themselves and the rational incentive to construct institutions to render enforcement and elaboration of those bargains credible.
As regards international relations theory more generally, Moravcsik is a “liberal”, in that he seeks to explain state behavior with reference to variation in the underlying purposes (“preferences” or “fundamental national interests”) that states derive from their embeddedness in domestic and transnational civil society. Liberal theory, in contrast to realist, institutionalist, and “constructivist” theory, privileges and directly theorizes social interdependence and globalization as the dominant force in world politics, past and present. Liberal theory, Moravcsik maintains, is not empirically sufficient to explain all of international relations, but it is analytically more fundamental than other types of international relations theory.
, Newsweek and elsewhere. He also conducts scholarly research on opera performance and history. He has written on the staging of Wagner operas and is currently directing a scholarly research project at Princeton University measuring and seeking to explain the possible decline in quality of Verdi and Wagner singing in recent times.
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of Politics and director of the European Union Program at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He is known for his research on European integration
European integration
European integration is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic integration of states wholly or partially in Europe...
, international organization
International organization
An intergovernmental organization, sometimes rendered as an international governmental organization and both abbreviated as IGO, is an organization composed primarily of sovereign states , or of other intergovernmental organizations...
s, human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
, and American and European foreign policy, for developing the theory of liberal intergovernmentalism
Liberal intergovernmentalism
Liberal intergovernmentalism is a political theory developed by Andrew Moravcsik in 1993 to explain European integration.-Background:The theory is a reaction against intergovernmentalism theory, which argues that...
, and for his work on liberal theories of international relations. He is a former policy-maker who currently serves as Nonresident Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution, Contributing Editor of Newsweek Magazine, and Book Review Editor (Europe) of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...
magazine.
He is married to the political scientist, international lawyer, university administrator and policy-maker Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter was the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011. She is the Bert G...
, with whom he has two sons.
Education and career
Moravcsik received a BABachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in history from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld
Bielefeld University
Bielefeld University is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the established universities...
, Hamburg
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...
, and Marburg in West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
. In 1982 he enrolled at the The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, from which he received a Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
degree in international relations
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
in 1984. In 1992 he obtained a Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and began teaching in the Department of Government. During his 12-year tenure in the department, Moravcsik became a Full Professor and founded Harvard's European Union program. He left the school in 2004 to assume a post at Princeton University, where he again founded an EU program.
Policy Career and Publications
Prior to the start of his academic career, Moravcsik served, at various times, as an international trade negotiator at the US Department of Commerce, a special assistant to the South KoreaSouth Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n Deputy Prime Minister, press assistant at the Commission of the European Communities, and the editor of a foreign policy journal.
Since 2002, he has written over one hundred pieces of public commentary. These include dozens of articles and commentaries including two cover stories (in 2005 and 2007). He has also written for the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
, Foreign Affairs, and other publications. He has lectured about the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
at The Pentagon
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...
, was a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation
Talk of the Nation
Talk of the Nation is a talk radio program based in the United States, produced by National Public Radio, and is broadcast nationally from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Its focus is current events and controversial issues....
, and has been quoted in multiple news sources, including
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...
,
International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...
,
and USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
. He continues to engage in regular policy analysis and advising, currently focusing on EU-US burden-sharing, the democratic deficit in Europe, transatlantic relations, the future of the European Union, and Asian regionalism. During the academic year 2007-2008 he was a fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.
Scholarly Career and Publications
Moravcsik has published one book, titled The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht, three edited volumes, and over one hundred of book chapters, scholarly articles, and book reviews. The book, which the American Historical ReviewAmerican Historical Review
The American Historical Review is the official publication of the American Historical Association, established in 1895 "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research." It targets readers...
called "the most important work in the field" of modern European studies, attempts to explain why the member states of the European Union agreed to cede sovereignty to a supranational entity.
According to Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest...
, The Choice for Europe has been cited at least 1351 times as of June 2009.
At least five journal articles authored by Moravcsik have been cited more than 200 times: (cited 1145 times) (cited 699 times) (cited 723 times) (cited 379 times) (cited 220 times)
Moravcsik’s “liberal intergovernmentalist” theory of European integration is regarded as a plausible account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union. It stresses the issue-specific functional national interests of member states and goes on to analyze the interstate bargains they strike among themselves and the rational incentive to construct institutions to render enforcement and elaboration of those bargains credible.
As regards international relations theory more generally, Moravcsik is a “liberal”, in that he seeks to explain state behavior with reference to variation in the underlying purposes (“preferences” or “fundamental national interests”) that states derive from their embeddedness in domestic and transnational civil society. Liberal theory, in contrast to realist, institutionalist, and “constructivist” theory, privileges and directly theorizes social interdependence and globalization as the dominant force in world politics, past and present. Liberal theory, Moravcsik maintains, is not empirically sufficient to explain all of international relations, but it is analytically more fundamental than other types of international relations theory.
Musicological Career and Publications
Moravcsik began publishing music criticism while an undergraduate at Stanford University. Over the past decade, he has published over 20 reviews and articles on opera in the Financial Times, Opera, Opera NewsOpera News
Opera News is an American classical music magazine. It has been published since 1936 by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, a non-profit organization located at Lincoln Center which was founded to support the Metropolitan Opera of New York City...
, Newsweek and elsewhere. He also conducts scholarly research on opera performance and history. He has written on the staging of Wagner operas and is currently directing a scholarly research project at Princeton University measuring and seeking to explain the possible decline in quality of Verdi and Wagner singing in recent times.
External links
- Andrew Moravcsik's faculty page
- European Union Program at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....