Curriculum Vitae
James Sperling
Department of Political Science
University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-1904
March 2014
(330) 972-8261 (office)
(740) 587-2641 (home)
[email protected]
Education.
PhD (1986)
MA (1978)
1980-81
1982-83
1974-75
BA (1974)
1972-73
University of California, Santa Barbara
SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva)
Universität Kiel (Germany) [Fulbright-Hays Fellowship]
Edinburgh University (Scotland)
University of California, Santa Barbara (summa cum laude
and phi beta kappa)
Edinburgh University (Scotland)
Academic Employment History.
Professor of Political Science, University of Akron (1997-present)
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Akron (1992-1997)
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Akron (1988-92)
Visiting Assistant Professor, James Madison College, Michigan State University (1986-88)
Visiting Instructor, Davidson College (1985-86)
Publications.
Books:
J. Sperling and M. Webber, NATO: What’s Wrong with NATO? And how to fix it.
(Oxford: Polity Press under contract)
J. Sperling (ed.), Handbook on Governance and Security (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar in
press).
M. Webber, J. Sperling and M. Smith, NATO’s Trajectory into the 21st Century: Decline
or Regeneration? (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012).
J. Sperling and S.V. Papacosma (eds), NATO after 60 Years (Kent: Kent State University
Press, 2012).
E. Kirchner and J. Sperling (eds) National Security Cultures: Patterns of Global
Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
C. Wagnasson, J. Sperling, and J. Hallenberg (eds), European Security Governance:
The European Union in a Westphalian World (Abingdon: Routledge 2009).
J. Sperling, A. Theophanous, and S.V. Papacosma (eds), Turkey and the EU: a wary
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partnership (Nicosia: University of Nicosia, 2008).
E. Kirchner and J. Sperling, EU Security Governance (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2007).
E. Kirchner and J. Sperling (eds.), Global Security Governance (Abingdon: Routledge,
2007).
J. Sperling (ed.), Germany at 55: Berlin ist nicht Bonn? (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2004)
S.V. Papacosma, J. Sperling, and A. Theophanous, EU Enlargement and New Security
Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean (Nicosia: Intercollege Press, 2004).
J. Sperling, S. Kay and S.V. Papacosma (eds), Limiting Institutions? The Challenge of
Security Governance in Eurasia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003).
J. Sperling, (ed.), Two tiers or two speeds? The European security order and the
enlargement of the European Union and NATO (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1999).
J. Sperling, Y. Malik, and D. Louscher (eds), Zones of Amity, Zones of Emnity: The
Prospects for Military and Economic Security in Asia, (Leiden: Brill Publishers,
1998).
J. Sperling and E. Kirchner, Recasting the European Order: Security Architectures and
Economic Cooperation (Manchester University Press, 1997).
C. Bluth, E. Kirchner, and J. Sperling (eds.), The Future of European Security (Aldershot:
Darmouth Publishing, 1994).
E.J. Kirchner and J. Sperling (eds.), The Federal Republic and NATO, Forty Years After
(Basingstoke: Macmilllan, 1992).
Articles:
‘Security Governance in Europe—A Return to System’ (coauthored), European
Security, forthcoming 2014.
‘EU police and judicial cooperation before the Treaty of Lisbon’, European Security,
22:2 (2013): 202-29.
‘NATO’s intervention in the Afghan civil war’ (coauthored), Civil Wars, 14:3 (2012):
344-72.
‘Regional Security’, Oxford On-Line Bibliographies: Political Science (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2011).
‘The European Security Order between American Hegemony and French Independence’
(coauthored), European Security 20:3 (2011): 305-336.
‘American Elite Perceptions of Italy as a Foreign Policy Actor: Does Italy Figure into
American Foreign Policy Calculations?’, Modern Italy 15:3 (2010): 259-76.
‘Germany and America in the 21st Century: Repeating the Postwar Patterns of Conflict
and Cooperation’, German Politics (2010).
‘Germany and European Security Governance: How Well Does the Birmingham Model
Perform?’ European Security 18:2 (2009): 125-50.
‘Sharing the Burden of Collective Security in the European Union,’ International
Organization (coauthored) 63:4 (2009): 789-810.
‘NATO: From Kosovo to Kabul’, International Affairs (coauthored), 85:3 (2009): 4912
512.
‘Is Germany a ‘Good European’? German Compliance with EU Law’ (coauthored)
German Politics, 14:3 (September 2005), pp. 354-70.
‘Capabilities gaps and traps: symptoms or cause of a troubled transatlantic relationship?’
Contemporary Security Strategy, 25:2 (2004), pp. 452-78.
‘The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic: The Very Model of a post-Modern Major
Power?’ German Politics, 12:3 (2004), pp. 1-34.
‘The New Security Threats in Europe: Theory and Evidence,’ (coauthored) European
Foreign Affairs Review 7:4 (Winter 2002), pp. 423-52.
‘Positive/Negative Identity in the Euro-Atlantic Communities: Germany’s Past, Europe’s
Future,’ (coauthored) Journal of European Integration, 24:4 (December 2002), pp.
281-303.
‘Neither Hegemony nor Dominance: Reconsidering German Power in Post Cold-War
Europe,’ British Journal of Political Science, vol. 31 (April 2001), pp. 389-425.
‘Will Form Lead to Function? Institutional Enlargement and the Creation of a European
Security and Defence Identity,’ (coauthored), Contemporary Security Studies, vol.
21, no. 1 (April 2000), pp. 23-45.
‘Economic Security and the Problem of Cooperation in Post-Cold War Europe, ‘
(coauthored) Review of International Studies, vol. 24, no. 2 (April 1998), pp. 221237
‘A Problem of Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific,’ Journal of African and Asian Studies,
vol. 33, no. 1 (February 1998), pp. 1-19.
‘The security architectures and institutional futures of post-1989 Europe,’ (coauthored)
Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 4, no. 2 (June 1997), pp. 155-70.
‘A Reconceptualization of the Arms Transfer Problem,’ (coauthored) Defense Analysis,
vol. 11, no. 3 (1995), pp. 293-311.
‘German Foreign Economic Policy after Unification: The End of `Cheque Book'
Diplomacy?,’ West European Politics, vol. 17, no. 1 (January 1994), pp. 73-97.
‘(Im)migration and German Security in Post-Yalta Europe,’ German Studies Review, vol.
XVII, no. 3 (October 1993), pp. 537-57.
‘The Future Germany and the Future of NATO,’ (coauthored) German Politics, vol. 1, no. 1
(April 1992), pp. 50-77.
‘After German Unification: A Reinvigorated Atlantic Economy or the Foundation of
`Fortress Europe'?’ German Politics, vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1992), pp. 200-222.
‘German Security Policy: A Civilian Power in an Uncivil World?’ Arms Control, vol. 12,
no. 3 (December 1991), pp. 77-98.
‘West German Foreign Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration: Eight Years'
Hard Labor, 1981-1988,’ German Studies Review, vol. 13 (February 1990), pp. 85110.
Book Chapters:
‘Neoclassical Realism and Alliance Politics’ in A. Hyde-Price and M. Webber (eds),
Analysing NATO: the Theory and Practice of Alliance, (Abingdon:
Routledge), forthcoming.
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‘The Evolving Westphalian State and Regional Security Governance’ in J. Sperling
(ed.), Handbook on Governance and Security, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar),
forthcoming.
The European Union as a system of regional security governance’ in J. Sperling (ed.),
Handbook on Governance and Security, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar),
forthcoming.
‘Italy-US: Dependable, but not Indispensible? ISPI Commentary (21 February 2013).
Publication of Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Milano, Italia.
‘Legami atlantici’, ASPENIA, no. 61 (2013): 17-24.
‘America and Europe: Stitched together but coming apart at the seams’ ASPENIA, no.
57/58 (2012): 91-101.
‘A Stable Crisis? NATO after Sixty Years’ in James Sperling and S. Victor Papacosma
(eds.), NATO after 60 Years (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2012).
‘The EU Foreign Policy and Security Identity: Waning or Waxing?’ in ISPI Studies, No.
76 (November 2011).
‘NATO and the Global Commons: A Perspective on Emerging Challenges’ in NATO
Supreme Allied Command Transformation, Managing Change: NATO’s
Partnerships and Deterrence in a Globalised World (Norfolk: ACT 2011), pp.
III/3- III/16.
‘Discord and Collaboration in Franco-American Relations: What can role theory tell us?’
(coauthored) in Sebastian Harnisch, et al. (eds) Role Theory in Comparative
Perspective (London: Palgrave, 2011).
‘The European Union and NATO: subordinate partner, cooperative pillar or competing
pole?’ in Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis (eds) The EU Presence in
International Organizations (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011).
‘National security cultures, technologies of public goods supply and security governance’
in Emil Kirchner and James Sperling (eds) National Security Cultures:
Patterns of Global Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
‘The United States: full spectrum contributor to global governance?’ in Emil Kirchner
and James Sperling (eds) National Security Cultures: Patterns of Global
Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
‘Structure, Agency, and the barriers to Global Security Governance’ (coauthored) in Emil
Kirchner and James Sperling (eds) National Security Cultures: Patterns of
Global Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
‘Gulliver’s Travails: Recrafting a Transatlantic Bargain’ in Simon Bulmer, Charlie Jeffery,
Stephen Padgett (eds), Rethinking Germany and Europe: Democracy and
Diplomacy in a Semi-Sovereign State (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmilan, 2010)
‘Permanent Allies or Friends with Benefits? The Anglo-American Relationship’ in David
Brown (ed.), British Defense Policy (Ashgate: 2010).
‘The American perception of the EU: Through a Glass, Darkly or Through the Looking
Glass?’ in Sonia Lucarelli and Lorenzo Fioramonti (eds), External Perceptions
of the European Union as a Global Actor (London: Routledge, 2009)
‘Security Governance in a Westphalian World’ in Wagnasson, et. al (eds), European
Security Governance: The European Union in a Westphalian World
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(London: Routledge, 2009).
‘State Attributes and System Properties: Security multilateralism in Central Asia,
Southeast Asia, the Atlantic and Europe,’ in Dimitris Bourantonis, Kostas Ifantis,
and Panayotis Tsakonas (eds.), Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an
Era of Globalization (London: Routledge, 2008).
‘Turkey and the European Security Order: Boundary, Barrier or Bridge?’ in James Sperling,
et. al (eds), Turkey and the EU: a wary partnership (Nicosia: University of
Nicosia, 2008).
‘Vertices of Conflict and Intersticies of Cooperation in the 21st century’ in Emil Kirchner
and James Sperling (eds.), Global Security Governance (London: Routledge,
2007), pp. 263-86.
‘The United States: the continuing search for an existential threat’ in Emil Kirchner and
James Sperling (eds.), Global Security Governance (London: Routledge, 2007), pp.
161-96.
‘The Evolution of NATO and the EU: What kind of future?’ in Paolo Foradori, Paolo
Rosa, and Riccardo Scartezzini (eds), Managing a Multilevel Foreign Policy:
The EU in International Affairs (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007), pp. 20126.
‘Capabilities Traps and Gaps: symptoms or cause of a troubled transatlantic relationship?’
in Martin Smith (ed.), Where is NATO Going? (London: Taylor and Francis,
2006), pp.66-92.
‘Berlin ist nicht Bonn?’ in James Sperling (ed.), Germany at 55: Berlin ist nicht Bonn?
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 3-36.
‘European Union enlargement and the future of the transatlantic alliance’ in S. Victor
Papacosma, et al. (eds), EU Enlargement and New Security Challenges in the
Eastern Mediterranean (Nicosia: Intercollege Press, 2004), pp. 69-98
‘The Challenge of Security Governance in a Changed and Changing World’ in Graham F.
Walker (ed.), Independence in an Age of Empire: Assessing Unilateralism and
Multilateralism (Halifax: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University,
2004), pp. 302-18.
‘Eurasian security governance: new threats, institutional adaptations,’ in James Sperling, et.
al. (eds), Limiting Institutions? The Challenge of Security Governance in
Eurasia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 3-28.
‘Economic Security in Post-Communist Europe,’ in Andrew Cottey and Derek Averre (eds),
Securing Europe’s East: New Security Challenges in Post-Communist Europe
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 141-65.
‘Ideals or Self-Interest? The Indian Nuclear Deterrent and American Foreign Policy,’ in
Yogendra Malik, Ashok Kapur, and Hal Gold (eds), India and America:
Convergent Ideals and Conflicting Strategic Interests (New Dehli: Sage, 2002),
pp. 458-98.
‘The enlargements of EU and NATO: constructing a two-tiered or two-speed European
security order,’ in Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich (ed.), Germany and America: Essays
in Honor of Gerald Kleinfeld (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Publishing, 2001),
pp. 247-63.
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‘EU Foreign Policy: Still an Oxymoron?’ in Stephen W. Hook (ed.), Contemporary
Foreign Policy: Adaptation Strategies of Great and Emerging Powers (New
York: Prentice Hall, 2001), pp. 118-44.
‘The United States: Strategic Vision or Tactical Positioning?’ in Martin Smith and Graham
Timmins (eds), Uncertain Europe (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 115-35.
‘Enlarging the EU and NATO,’ in James Sperling (ed.), Two tiers or two speeds? The
European security order and the enlargement of the European Union and
NATO (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999), pp. 3-22.
‘Two tiers or two speeds? Constructing a stable European security order,’ in James Sperling
(ed.), Two Tiers or Two Speeds? The European security order and the
enlargement of the European Union and NATO (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1999), pp. 181-199.
‘Less than meets the eye: German structural dominance in Europe,’ in Mary Hampton and
Christian Søe (ed.), Between Bonn and Berlin: German Politics Adrift (Totowa:
Roman and Littlefield, 1999), pp. 257-76.
‘The German Pursuit of Economic Security, 1949-1999,’ in Peter Merkl (ed.), The Federal
Republic of Germany at 50 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), pp. 275-86.
‘The Economic Elements of the European Security Order,’ in Carl C. Hodge (ed.),
Redefining Security: National, Transnational, and Institutional Change at the
End of the Century (New York: Garland Press, 1999), pp. 51-72.
‘The Problem of Debt Finance in Central Europe and its Implications for European Security:
The Case of Poland,’ in Emil J. Kirchner (ed.), Transition and Regional Stability:
the Case of the Visegrad Countries (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 191-207.
‘The German Architecture for Europe: Military, Political and Economic Dimensions,’ in
Peter Merkl, (ed.), The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-Five: Union
without Unity (New York: NYU Press, 1995), pp. 359-77.
‘Burdensharing revisited,’ in Christoph Bluth, Emil Kirchner, and James Sperling (eds.),
The Future of European Security (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishers, 1994), pp.
163-186.
‘Germany Security Policy in Post-Yalta Europe,’ in Donald Hancock and Helga Welsh
(eds.), German Unification: Process and Outcomes (Boulder: Westview Press,
1994), pp. 261-84.
‘Arms Transfers and the Structure of International Power’ (coauthored) in Norman Graham,
(ed.), Seeking Security and Development: The Impact of Military Spending and
Arms Transfers (Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1994), pp. 55-77.
‘Implications of German Unification for European Security,’ in Michael Huelshoff, Andrei
Markovits, and Simon Riech (eds.), The New Germany in the New Europe (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp. 321-46.
‘Unified Germany, a Single European Area, and the Future of the Atlantic Economy’ in Carl
Lankowski (ed.), Germany and the European Community: Beyond Hegemony
and Containment? (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), pp. 179-217.
‘No Sticks? No Carrots? The Course of German Foreign Economic Policy after
Unification,’ in Nick Meyerhoffer (ed.), Germany and the United States Facing
the Post-Communist World (Phoenix: Northern Arizona University, 1993), pp. 156
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‘From Instability to Stability’ (coauthored ) in Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling (eds.),
The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO, Forty Years After (London:
Macmillan, 1992), pp. 1-28.
‘From Certainty to Uncertainty’ (coauthored) in Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling (eds.),
The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO, Forty Years After (London:
Macmillan, 1992), pp. 252-66.
‘NATO, the United States, and West German Foreign Economic Policies, 1949-1989’ in
Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling (eds.), The Federal Republic of Germany and
NATO, Forty Years After (London: Macmillan, 1992), pp. 157-194.
‘The Federal Republic, the United States, and the Atlantic Economy, 1949-1989,’ in Peter
Merkl (ed.), The Federal Republic at Forty (New York: New York University
Press, 1989), pp. 367-390.
Select non-refereed publications
‘The Post-Westphalian State, National Security Cultures, and Global Security
Governance’, EU-GRASP Working Paper N° 15 (August 2010).
‘NATO AND AFGHANISTAN: DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN?’, In Depth 6:2
(March-April 2009), Cyprus Centre for European and International Affairs,
University of Nicosia.
‘Regional or Global Security Cooperation? The Vertices of Conflict and Interstices of
Cooperation,’ Discussion Paper TAP/2007-8/2, Robert Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies, European University Institute, March 2008.
E. Kirchner and J. Sperling (eds), Global Threat Perceptions: Elite Survey results
from Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Russia, and the United States, GARNET Series E-book, Working Paper No.
18/07 (May 2007).
Conference Papers.
Invited (2000-2013):
‘America in the Middle: Defending or Dominating the Geostrategic and Geoeconomic
Systems of Governance?’ prepared for the seminar ‘Global Governance: Crossed
Perspectives’ 22 October 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sponsored by the
Alexandre de Gusmão Foundation and the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica
Internazionale.
‘Taken for granted or not taken seriously? American Elite Perceptions of Italy as a
Foreign Policy Actor’, Research Seminar presentation, Istituto per gli Studi di
Politica Internazionale Palazzo Clerici (Via Clerici 5 - 20121 Milano), 15
February 2012.
‘NATO and the Global Commons: Norfolk, We have a problem’, NATO Supreme
Allied Command Transformation, Managing Change: NATO’s Partnerships and
Deterrence in a Globalised World, Villa Guastavillani, Bologna, Italy. Hosted by
ACT and Istituto Affari Internazionali, 21-22 June 2011.
‘Reconciling Sovereignty and Solidarity in Crisis Management’, presented at Search for
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Solidarity: Developing EU capacities for crisis and disaster management,
Résidence Palace, Brussels, Belgium. Sponsored by European Policy Centre,
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, King Baudouin Foundation and Compagnia
di San Paolo, 24 March 2011.
‘Beyond Globalisation: Reflections on International Security Issues in the Coming Decade,’ A
Global Crisis or a Crisis for Globalization? The Challenges for Europe, SNES Spring
Conference 2010, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, 18-19 March 2010.
‘Neoliberal Institutionalism and NATO: What can Theory Tell us?’ ECPR Workshop II,
Theorizing NATO, Royal Netherlands Military Academy, Breda, the Netherlands,
24-25 February 2010.
‘Burden-sharing in NATO: The Case of Afghanistan,’ delivered at the University of
Montreal, Montreal, Canada, February 2010.
‘National security cultures, technologies of public goods supply and security governance,’
4th Annual GARNET Conference (funded by Framework 6 Program, European
Union), Rome, Italy, September 2009.
“What does Theory Tell Us about the Impact of Enlargement on NATO?”, ECPR
Workshop Theorizing NATO (conveners: Mark Webber and Adrian Hyde-Price)
Lisbon, Portugal, 15-19 April 2009.
“Neutrality in the (Post)-Westphalian State System” paper presented at Neutrality and
European Security Governance During and After the Cold War, University of
Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus, 6-7 April 2009.
“Policies of Protection: Impure Public Good and the Problem of Collective Action
Problem?”, paper prepared for Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency conference,
Crisis Management in Europe: What role for the EU and the Swedish Presidency
2009?, Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm, Sweden, 28 January 2009
“NATO: Necessary but Insufficient?”, paper prepared for Saint Malo + 10: Is the ESDP
Capable and Credible, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 4-6 December 2008
“Mars & Venus or Shiva & Vishnu: Transatlantic Roles after 9/11”, paper prepared for
workshop sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation, Role Theory Research in
International Relations: Conceptual Challenges and Political Promise, Trier,
Germany, 30 September-1 October 2008.
“National Security Cultures, the Technology of Public Goods Production and Regional
Security Governance” paper prepared for the GARNET workshop, Suffolk
University, Boston, MA, 18-19 April 2008.
“The External Image of the European Union: United States”, paper prepared for GARNET
workshop on The external image of the EU, held at the Forum on the Problems of
Peace and War, University of Florence, Villa Bandini, 14-15 March 2008.
“Regional and Global Security Governance: Vertices of Conflict, Interstices of Cooperation”,
paper presented at the European University Institute, Transatlantic Programme 2007-8
Lecture Series, Florence, Italy, 13 March 2008.
“Regional or Global Security Cooperation?”, seminar presentation, Dipartimento di Politica,
Istituzioni, Storia, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 12 March 2008.
“Germany and the Governance of European Security: Laggard or Leader?” paper presented at
the School for Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University--8
Bologna Center, 12 March 2008.
‘Security Governance’, paper prepared for workshop on Security Governance Meets Great
Power Gambit: Clashes and Prospects, sponsored by the Swedish National
Defence College, 25-26 October 2007.
‘The “Birmingham School” on Germany and Europe”, paper delivered at Germany and the
future of Europe: the Constitutional Debate and the German Presidency”,
sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, UACES, and the Edinburgh Europa
Institute, University, 28 February – 1 March 2007
“Analyzing Atlantic and European Security Institutions”, paper delivered at the European
Security Conference Innsbruck 2006, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 29
September – 1 October, 2006.
“Principled barriers to the EU as a security actor: the contra-imperatives of sovereignty
and solidarity’, paper delivered at Future Challenges of Crisis Management in
Europe, sponsored by the Swedish Emergency Management Agency, Stockholm,
3-5 May 2006
“The American Perception of Threat”, paper delivered at the GARNET workshop on global
governance, sponsored by the European Commission, 6th Framework Programme,
Mallorca, Spain, 4-6 September 2006.
“Regional Conflict and Cooperation: the evidence so far”, paper delivered at the GARNET
workshop on global governance, sponsored by the European Commission, 6th
Framework Programme, Mallorca, Spain, 4-6 September 2006.
“US Threat perception: From the communist to the radical islamist threat”, paper delivered
at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Workshop on global governance,
sponsored by the European Commission, 6th Framework Programme, 22-25
September 2005
“State Attributes, System Properties and Varieties of Security Multilateralism”, paper
delivered at Athens University School of Economics and Business, Delphi, Greece,
3-5 June 2005
“Boundary, Barrier, Bridge: Turkey’s roles in the European security order”, paper
delivered at Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus, 12-14 May 2005
“How badly damaged is the transatlantic alliance? A skeptical view,” roundtable
presentation at the Association for the Study of German Politics, Oxford University,
15-16 April 2004.
“The Challenge of Security Governance in a Changed and Changing International System,”
paper presented at Conference on Regional Integration and Public Goods, United
Nations University, Bruges, Belgium, 20-21 November 2003.
“EU Enlargement and the future of the Transatlantic Alliance,” paper presented at Evolving
Relationships: Regional Security in the Eastern Mediterranean, Intercollege, Nicosia,
Cyprus, May 2003.
“Security Governance in the 21st Century: Problems and Prospects,” paper prepared for
workshop on Global Governance held at IGCC, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2
October 2002.
“The New Security Threats to Eurasia: Theory and Evidence” for conference Central Asian
Security held at Renmin University, Beijing, China, 24-26 April 2002.
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“The new security agenda and the enlargements of NATO and the EU: Four scenarios for the
future” presented at IGCC, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, 16 March 2002.
“Germany and the Enlargements of NATO and the EU: Four Scenarios for the Future,” for
workshop Germany after Enlargement, held at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, 16 November
2001.
“The New Security Agenda, International Institutions, and the Challenge of Eurasian
Security,” Lemnizter Center for NATO and EU Studies, Kent State University, 28-30
September 2001.
“The (not-so-new) Focus on Economic Security,” Croft Institute, University of Mississippi,
Oxford, Mississippi, September 2000.
Scholarly Meetings (2000-2013)
‘The Libyan Abstention: Is Germany a (neoclassical) Realist Power?’ delievered at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 29 August-1 September
2013.
‘Gulliver’s Travail: Crafting a New Transatlantic Bargain’, delivered at 17th Conference of
Europeanists, 15-17 April 2010, Montreal, Canada.
‘Security Governance and the Emergence of the Late-­‐ and Post-­‐Westphalian State’, paper
delivered at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 15-18
February 2009, New York, New York.
‘EU Security Governance: From Deterrence to Joint Production of Security’, paper
delivered at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 15-18
February 2009, New York, New York.
‘Gulliver’s Travails: Recrafting a Transatlantic Bargain’, paper delivered at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 28-31 August
2008.
‘On the (relative) Unimportance of Germany: Changing power relationships in the
Transatlantic Alliance’, 31st Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association,
San Diego, California, 4-6 October 2007.
‘US Perceptions of the European Union’, 4th ECPR General Conference, Pisa, Italy, 6-8
September, 2007
“Security Multilateralism in Europe: What role for Germany?”, paper delivered at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, 31
August - 3 September 2006.
“Germany’s future role in NATO and the ESDP” German Studies Association Meeting,
Washington, DC, 5-7 October 2004.
“The New Security Agenda and the Challenge of Global Security Governance: A Conceptual
Analysis”, paper delivered at the meeting of the SGIR, The Hague, 10-12 September
2004
“American Security Policy and Global Governance, 1989-2002", paper delivered at the
meeting of the SGIR, the Hague, 10-12 September 2004.
“Capability Gaps and Capability Traps: The ‘newest’ problem in Atlantic Relations,” paper
presented at the British International Studies Association, University of Birmingham,
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England, 15-16 December 2003.
“The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic: The Very Model of a post-Modern Major Power?”
paper presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, 26-28
September 2003.
“The New Security Threats in Europe: Theory and Evidence,” paper presented at the biennial
meeting of the European Union Studies Association, Nashville, TN, 27-29 March 2003.
“How ‘Normal’ is German Foreign Policy?” paper presented at meeting of the German Studies
Association, San Diego, CA, 3-6 October 2002.
“Compliance with EU Law: Is Germany a Better European?” paper prepared for the
International Studies Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 28-31 March 2000.
“Positive and Negative Identities in the Shaping of a New German Security Policy,”
(coauthored) German Studies Association Meeting, Washington, DC, 4-7 October
2001.
“Neither Dominance nor Hegemony: Reconsidering German Power in Post-Cold War Europe,”
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC,
September 2000.
“Negative Identity Formation and German Foreign Policy,” Annual Meeting of the German
Studies Association, October 2000.
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