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1 Curriculum Vitae James Sperling Spring 2019 Department of Political Science University of Akron Akron, OH 44325-1904 (740) 975-2146 (cell) (740) 587-2641 (home) [email protected] Date of birth: 6 September 1952 Education. PhD (1986) University of California, Santa Barbara MA (1978) SAIS, Johns Hopkins University 1982-83 Universität Kiel (Germany) [Fulbright-Hays Fellowship] 1980-81 Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) 1974-75 Edinburgh University (Scotland) BA (1974) University of California, Santa Barbara (summa cum laude and phi beta kappa) 1972-73 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) .

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Curriculum Vitae

James Sperling Spring 2019

Department of Political Science

University of Akron

Akron, OH 44325-1904

(740) 975-2146 (cell)

(740) 587-2641 (home)

[email protected]

Date of birth: 6 September 1952

Education.

PhD (1986) University of California, Santa Barbara

MA (1978) SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

1982-83 Universität Kiel (Germany) [Fulbright-Hays Fellowship]

1980-81 Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva)

1974-75 Edinburgh University (Scotland)

BA (1974) University of California, Santa Barbara (summa cum laude

and phi beta kappa)

1972-73 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)

.

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Publications

Forthcoming/in progress:

James Sperling and Mark Webber, ‘Trump’s Foreign Policy and NATO: Voice and Exit’,

Review of International Studies (in press).

James Sperling and Mark Webber, ‘The EU and NATO’ in Oxford Encyclopedia of the

European Union (in press)

Martin Smith, James Sperling and Mark Webber, NATO: What’s Wrong with NATO?

And how to fix it. (Oxford: Polity Press).

James Sperling, ‘The Evolution of American Leadership since Kosovo’, Comparative

Strategy.

James Sperling, ‘Governance of the Regional Maritime Commons’, Routledge

Handbook on Maritime Security

Books:

Mark Webber, James Sperling, and Martin Smith, NATO’s Trajectory into the 21st

Century: Decline or Regeneration? (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012).

Emil Kirchner and James Sperling, EU Security Governance (Manchester: Manchester

University Press, 2007).

James Sperling and Emil Kirchner, Recasting the European Order: Security

Architectures and Economic Cooperation (Manchester University Press, 1997).

Edited Books:

James Sperling and Spyros Economides (eds) EU Security Strategies: Extending the

European System of Security Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).

James Sperling (ed.), Handbook on Governance and Security (Cheltenham: Edward

Elgar, 2014).

James Sperling and S. Victor Papacosma (eds), NATO after 60 Years (Kent: Kent State

University Press, 2012).

Emil Kirchner and James Sperling (eds) National Security Cultures: Patterns of

Global Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).

Charlotte Wagnasson, James Sperling, and Jan Hallenberg (eds), European Security

Governance: The European Union in a Westphalian World (Abingdon:

Routledge 2009).

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James Sperling, Andreas Theophanous, and S. Victor Papacosma (eds), Turkey and the

EU: a wary partnership (Nicosia: University of Nicosia, 2008).

Emil Kirchner and James Sperling (eds.), Global Security Governance (Abingdon:

Routledge, 2007).

James Sperling (ed.), Germany at 55: Berlin ist nicht Bonn? (Manchester: Manchester

University Press, 2004)

S. Victor Papacosma, James Sperling, and Andreas Theophanous, EU Enlargement and

New Security Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean (Nicosia: Intercollege

Press, 2004).

James Sperling, Sean Kay and S. Victor Papacosma (eds), Limiting Institutions? The

Challenge of Security Governance in Eurasia (Manchester: Manchester

University Press, 2003).

James Sperling (ed.), Two Tiers or Two Speeds? The European Security Order and

the Enlargement of the European Order and NATO (Manchester: Manchester

University Press, 1999).

James Sperling, Yogendra Malik, and David Louscher (eds), Zones of Amity, Zones of

Enmity: The Prospects for Military and Economic Security in Asia, (Leiden:

Brill Publishers, 1998).

Christoph Bluth, Emil Kirchner, and James Sperling (eds.), The Future of European

Security (Aldershot: Darmouth Publishing, 1994).

Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling (eds.), The Federal Republic and NATO, Forty

Years After (Basingstoke: Macmilllan, 1992).

Guest Editor, Journal

Sonia Lucarelli, James Sperling and Mark Webber (eds) Special Issue of West

European Politics: The European Union as an Agent of Collective

Securitization, 42:2 (2019).

Articles:

‘The European Union, Security Governance and Collective Securitization’ (with Mark

Webber), West European Politics 42:2 (2019): 228-60.

‘NATO and the Ukraine Crisis: Collective Securitization’, (with Mark Webber), European Journal of International Studies 2:1 (2017): 19-46.

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‘Governing the Global Commons: Geostrategic and Geoeconomic Sources of Discord in

the International System’, Caucasus International, 5 (2015): 53-74.

'Security Governance in Europe: A Return to System' (with Mark Webber), European

Security, 23:2 (2014): 126-44.

‘Legami atlantici’, ASPENIA, no. 61 (2013): 17-24.

‘America and Europe: Stitched together but coming apart at the seams’ ASPENIA, no.

57/58 (2013): 91-101.

‘Italy-US: Dependable, but not Indispensible? ISPI Commentary (21 February 2013).

Publication of Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Milano, Italia.

Available at:

http://www.ispionline.it/sites/default/files/pubblicazioni/commentary_sperling_21

.02.2013_0.pdf.

‘EU police and judicial cooperation before the Treaty of Lisbon’, European Security,

22:2 (2013): 202-29.

Reprinted in: Raphael Bossong and Mark Rhinard (eds) (2014), Explaining EU

Internal Security Cooperation: The Problem(s) of Producing Public

Goods (New York and London: Routledge).

‘NATO’s intervention in the Afghan civil war’ (coauthored), Civil Wars, 14:3 (2012):

344-72.

‘The EU Foreign Policy and Security Identity: Waning or Waxing?’ in ISPI Studies, No.

76 (November 2011) Publication of Istituto per gli Studi di Politica

Internazionale, Milano, Italia. Available at:

http://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/Analysis_76_2011.pdf.

‘Regional Security’, Oxford On-Line Bibliographies: Political Science (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2011).

Revised edition published in 2015.

‘The European Security Order between American Hegemony and French Independence’

(with Ulrich Krotz), 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.

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“Germany and America in the 21st Century: Repeating the Postwar Patterns of Conflict

and Cooperation”, German Politics 19:1 (2010): 53-71

‘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 (with Han Dorussen and Emil Kirchner) 63:4 (2009): 789-810.

‘NATO: From Kosovo to Kabul’, International Affairs (with Mark Webber), 85:3

(2009): 491-512.

‘Is Germany a ‘Good European’? German Compliance with EU Law” (coauthored)

German Politics, 14:3 (2005): 354-70.

“Capabilities gaps and traps: symptoms or cause of a troubled transatlantic relationship?”

Contemporary Security Strategy, 25:2 (2004): 452-78.

“The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic: The Very Model of a post-Modern Major

Power?” German Politics, 12:3 (2004): 1-34.

“The New Security Threats in Europe: Theory and Evidence,” (with Emil Kirchner)

European Foreign Affairs Review 7:4 (2002): 423-52.

“Positive/Negative Identity in the Euro-Atlantic Communities: Germany’s Past, Europe’s

Future,” (with Mary Hampton) Journal of European Integration, 24:4 (2002): ,

281-303.

“Neither Hegemony nor Dominance: Reconsidering German Power in Post Cold-War

Europe,” British Journal of Political Science, 31(2001): 389-425.

“Will Form Lead to Function? Institutional Enlargement and the Creation of a European

Security and Defence Identity,” (with Emil Kirchner), Contemporary Security

Studies, 21:1 (2000): 23-45.

"Economic Security and the Problem of Cooperation in Post-Cold War Europe, “ (with

Emil Kirchner) Review of International Studies, 24:2 (1998): 221-237

“Introduction: A Problem of Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific,” Journal of African and

Asian Studies, 33:1 (1998): 1-19.

“The security architectures and institutional futures of post-1989 Europe,” (with Emil

Kirchner), Journal of European Public Policy, 4:2 (1997): 155-70.

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"A Reconceptualization of the Arms Transfer Problem," (with David Louscher), Defense

Analysis, 11:3 (1995): 293-311.

"German Foreign Economic Policy after Unification: The End of `Cheque Book'

Diplomacy?," West European Politics, 17:1 (1994): 73-97.

"(Im)migration and German Security in Post-Yalta Europe," German Studies Review,

17:3 (1993): 537-57.

"After German Unification: A Reinvigorated Atlantic Economy or the Foundation of

`Fortress Europe'?" German Politics, 1:2 (1992): 200-22.

"The Future Germany and the Future of NATO," (with Emil Kirchner) German Politics,

1:1 (1992): 50-77.

"German Security Policy: A Civilian Power in an Uncivil World?" Arms Control, 12:3

(1991): 77-98.

"West German Foreign Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration: Eight Years'

Hard Labor, 1981-1988," German Studies Review, 13:1 (1990): 85-110.

Book Chapters:

‘NATO Operations’ (with Mark Webber) in Hugo Meijer and Marco Wyss (eds), The

European Handbook of Armed Forces (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2018): 888-9

‘Military Alliances’ in John Deni and David Galbreath (eds), Routledge Handbook of

Defence Studies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018): 350-62

‘The European Union and the Grand Strategy for post-Westphalian Governance’ in

Spyros Economides and James Sperling (eds), EU Security Strategies:

Extending the European System of Security Governance (Abingdon:

Routledge, 2018): 1-26.

‘America in the middle: defending or dominating the geostrategic and geo-economic

systems of governance?’ in Sergio Eduardo Moreira Lima (eds), Global

governance: Crossed Perceptions (Rio de Janeiro: Alexandre de Gusmao

Foundation, 2015), pp. 231-63.

‘Neoclassical Realism and Alliance Politics’, in Adrian Hyde-Price and Mark Webber

(eds), Theorizing NATO: The Theory and Practice of Alliance (Abingdon:

Routledge, 2015).

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‘The US-EU Management of Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st

Century: How Strategic a

Strategic Partnership?’, in Spyros Blavoukos, Dimitrious Bourantonis, and Clara

Portela (eds), The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons:

Strategies, Policies, Actions (The European Union in International Affairs),

Routedge: 2015).

‘Germany and America: 1945-2012’, in Sarah Colvin (ed.), Routledge Handbook of

German Politics & Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 2015).

‘Introduction: governance and security in the twenty-first century’, in James Sperling

(ed.), Handbook on Governance and Security (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,

2014).

‘Regional security governance’, in James Sperling (ed.), Handbook on Governance and

Security (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014).

‘The European Union’, in James Sperling (ed.), Handbook on Governance and

Security (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014).

‘The post-Westphalian state, national security cultures, and global security governance’ in

Sonia Lucarelli, Luk Van Langenhove and Jan Wouters (eds), The EU and

Multilateral Security Governance (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).

‘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).

‘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?” (with Ulrich Krotz) 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).

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“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).

Reprinted as: ‘La búsqueda estadounidense de una amenaza existencial en

el siglo XXI’ in Alejandro Chanona Burguete and Yidira Gálvez Salvador

(eds), Regionalismos frente a la Agenda de Seguridad Internacional

(Mexico City, Mexico: Miguel Angel Porrua, 2011), pp. 15-62.

“Structure, Agency, and the barriers to Global Security Governance” (with Emil

Kirchner) 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

(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 Interstices of Cooperation in the 21st century” in Emil Kirchner

and James Sperling (eds.), Global Security Governance (London: Routledge,

2007), pp. 263-86.

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“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. 201-26.

“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.

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"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" (with David Louscher) 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.

15-36.

"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.

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Book Reviews

Review of Stanley Sloan, Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union and the

Transatlantic Bargain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016) in

European Security, 26(2): 299-300.

Review Essay: ‘Making the Case for Ideology in Security Studies: European Security

in NATO’s Shadow by Stephanie Hofmann, Cambridge University Press, 2013),

International Politics Review (2016), 4(2): 78-82.

Review of Stephen Szabo, Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-economics (London:

Bloomsbury) for German Politics, at 24:2(2015): 205-06.

Review of Wynn Rees, The US_EU Security Relationship: the tension between a

European and Global Agenda (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) in

European Security 21:4 (2012): 599-61.

Review of Georgeta Pourchot, Eurasia Rising: Democracy and Independence in the

Post-Soviet Space (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2008),

Slavic Studies 31: 3 (2009): 957-58

Review of Ryan C. Hendrickson, Diplomacy and War at NATO: The Secretary

General and Military Action after the Cold War (Columbia: University of

Missouri Press) for International History Review 29:4 (December 2007), pp.

923-25.

Review of John O’Brennan, The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

(London: Palgrave, 2006) for Slavic Review 66:2 (Summer 2007), pp. 320-330.

Review of Henning Tewes. Germany, Civilian Power and the New Europe.

Enlarging NATO and the European Union. (New York: Palgrave. 2002) for

German Politics and Society, 21:4 (Winter 2004), pp. 124-26.

Review of Sten Rynning, Changing Military Doctrine: Presidents and Military Power

in Fifth Republic France, 1958-2000 (Westport: Praeger, 2002) for

Contemporary Security Policy, 24:3 (2003).

Review of Mark Smith, NATO Enlargement During the Cold War: Strategy and

System in the Western Alliance (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000) for International

History Review 24:3 (September 2002), pp. 118-22.

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Review of Ekavi Athanassopoulou, Turkey-Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-

52: The First Enlargement of NATO (London: Frank Cass, 1999) for

International History Review, 24:3 (September 2002), pp. 118-22.

Review of Thomas Banchoff, The German Problem Transformed: Institutions,

Politics and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan

Press, 1999) for Governance,14:4 (October 2001), pp. 542-44.

Review of John S. Duffield, World Power Forsaken: Political Culture, International

Institutions, and German Security Policy after Unification (Stanford: Stanford

University Press, 1998) for Annals of the Academy of the American Academy

of Political and Social Sciences 567 (January 2000), pp. 217-18.

Review of Joyce Marie Mushaben, From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations:

Changing Attitudes Toward the National Question and NATO in the Federal

Republic of Germany (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998) for American Political

Science Review, vol. 93, no. 3 (September 1999), pp. 762-64.

Review of Angela E. Stent, Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet

Collapse, and the New Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), for

American Political Science Review, vol. 93, no. 3 (September 1999), pp. 762-64.

Review of Helen V. Milner, Resisting the Protectionism: Global Industries and the

Politics of International Trade (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)

for the Journal of Politics, vol. 52, February 1990.

Review of Edwina S. Campbell, Germany's Past and Europe's Future: The

Challenges of West German Foreign Policy (London: Pergamon-Brassey's,

1989) for History: Review of New Books Summer 1990.

Review of Robert D. Blackwill and F. Stephen Larrabee, Conventional Arms Control

and East-West Security (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989) for

Perspective, Summer 1990.

Review of Argyris G. Andrianopoulos, Western Europe in Kissinger's Global Strategy

(New York: St. Martins', 1989) for the American Political Science Review, vol.

83, September 1989.

Review of Donald S. Spencer, The Carter Implosion: Jimmy Carter and the

Amateur Style of Diplomacy (New York: Praeger, 1988) for Perspective,

August 1989.

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Review of Peter L. Berger, The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about

Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty (New York: Basic Books, 1986) for the

Journal of Politics, vol. 50, 1988.

Review of Thomas L. Ilgen, Autonomy and Interdependence: US-Western European

Monetary and Trade Relations, 1958-1984, (Totowa: Rowman and Allenheld,

1985), for the Journal of Politics, vol. 48, 1986.

Review of Dennis L. Bark (ed.), To Promote the Peace: US Foreign Policy in the Mid-

1980's, (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1984) for the American Political

Science Review, vol. 79, 1985.

Review of Gebhard Schweigler, West German Foreign Policy: The Domestic Setting,

(New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984), for The European Studies Journal, vol.

2, 1985.

Review of Robert Litwak, Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy

and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976, (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1984), for the American Political Science Review, vol. 79, 1985.

Review of Christian Hacke, Die Ära Nixon-Kissinger, 1969-1974. Konservative

Reform der Weltpolitik (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1983), for the American

Political Science Review, vol. 79, 1985.

Working Papers and other publications:

Emil Kirchner and James Sperling (eds), “Global Threat Perceptions: Elite views and

national security cultures”, GARNET Working Papers (due for electronic publication in

February 2007).

“The Challenge of Security Governance in a Changed and Changing International System”

(coauthored with Emil Kirchner), UNU-CRIS Occasional Paper 0-2004/9 (Bruges: UNU,

2004).

“Global Problems, Regional Solutions? The Challenge of EU-US-Asian Cooperation in the

Post-Cold War International System,” (coauthored), EU Studies in Japan, no. 20 (2000), pp.

91-132.

“The Enlargement of EU and NATO: Constructing a Two-Tiered or Two-Speed European

Security Order,” Working Paper E99-2, European Union Center, University of Georgia

System, http://www.inta.gatech.edu/eucenter/wpapers/papers.htlm.

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“Problems of debt finance in Central Europe, with particular emphasis on Poland,” in

Conference Proceedings: The Integration of Central and Western Europe: Legal,

Economic and Security Dimensions, published by the Forum on Central and Eastern

Europe in conjunction with the Centre for European Studies of the University of Essex, 15-

18 June 1995, Essex, England, pp. 47-53.

"Perceptions of Germany and the United States on NATO," (coauthored), Essex Papers in

Politics and Government, no. 80 (July 1991).

Invited papers (externally funded):

‘The (Non)Existent Terrorism-Immigration Nexus in the United States’. Prepared for

workshop, ‘Between Rights and Fears: Exploring the Migration-Terrorism Nexus

from a Justice Perspective, University of Bologna, Bertinoro Conference Centre,

4-6 June 2018.

‘The European Union, Security Governance and Collective Securitization’ (with Mark

Webber). Prepared for workshop, ‘West European Politics Special Issue

Workshop: Governing the European Security Space: The EU as an Agent of

Collective Securitization’, 16-18 September 2016, University of Bologna, Forli,

Italy.

‘The Collective Securitization of Maritime Security: the EU in the NATO’s shadow?’

Prepared for workshop, ‘West European Politics Special Issue Workshop:

Governing the European Security Space: The EU as an Agent of Collective

Securitization’, 16-18 September 2016, University of Bologna, Forli, Italy.

‘German Foreign Policy in Flux?’, Prepared for workshop ‘1989 and its Long-Term

Consequences: Making Sense of the Berlin Republic’, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, PA, 27-28 February 2015.

‘NATO and the Global Commons’, paper delivered at the Latvian National Defense

Academy, Riga, Latvia, 20 April 2015.

‘Convergent EU Security Strategies and Diverging National Interests?’, paper prepared

for European International Studies Association funded workshop, ‘European

Security Strategies’, Rapallo, Italy, 29 October-1 November 2014.

‘Effective Multilateralism in the Commons: a theoretical introduction’, paper delivered

at the EISA Workshop, 21-24 May 2014, Izmir Turkey.

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‘Security Governance: A theory or pre-theory of international relations?’, Roundtable

presentation, the EISA Workshop, 21-24 May 2014, Izmir Turkey.

‘Capabilities as Burden-sharing’, presented at ESRC Seminar Series 2012-14: ‘NATO

after Afghanistan’, Brussels, Belgium. 28 May 2014,

‘Europe’s Security Strategies and the Local Commons’, paper prepared for the EISA

Workshop ‘European Security Strategies: The EU as a Strategic Security Actor in the

21st century’, 29 October-1 November 2013.

‘America in the Middle: Defending or Dominating the Geostrategic and Geoeconomic

Systems of Governance?’, paper prepared for the seminar ‘Global Governance:

Crossed Perspectives’ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sponsored by the Alexandre de Gusmão

Foundation and the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 22 October 2013.

‘The Evolving American View of Europe as an Economic and Strategic Actor’ Prepared

for China, Europe, United States: the global adjustment, Aspen Institute Italia,

Rome, November 30-December 1, 2012.

‘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

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.

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‘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.

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“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---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

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“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.

“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,” Lemnitzer 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.

“Issues in Western European-Japanese Relations,” Nanzan International Symposium, 13-

18 October 1999, Nanzan, Japan.

“The Enlargement of EU and NATO: Constructing a Two-Tiered or Two-Speed

European Security Order?”, Georgia Institute of Technology, EU Center

Conference, 12-13 March 1999, Atlanta, GA.

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"The Economics of Europe's Changing Security Architecture," at conference Socio-

Economic Consequences of Defence Conversion, Centre for European Studies,

University of Essex, Colchester, England, 24-25 February 1994.

"NATO Burdensharing Revisited," Centre for European Studies, University of Essex,

conference “British and German Perspectives on the Future of European

Security”, 3-4 December 1992.

"No Carrots? No Sticks? The Course of German Foreign Economic Policy after

Unification," XXI International Conference, Germany and the United States

Facing the Post-Communist World, 24-27 September 1992, North Arizona

University, Flagstaff, AZ.

"Implications of German Unification for European Security," presented at University

Center for International Studies, West European Studies Program, DAAD

sponsored The Faces of a Unified Germany: Past Present and Future, University

of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 11-12 October 1991.

"Perspectives on Evolving European Security Arrangements: A German Perspective,"

presented at Ridgway Center for International Security-Army War College-

Strategic Studies Institute, University of Pittsburgh, "European Security: Towards

2000," 25-26 September 1991.

"The German Strategy for the Post Postwar European Order" 5th Pacific Workshop for

German Studies, California State University, Long Beach, April 3-5, 1991.

Conference Papers

‘US Grand Strategy and American Leadership of NATO’, paper prepared for the 12th

Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International

Studies Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-15 September 2018.

‘The European Union: Security Governance and Collective Securitization’, paper prepared for

the 12th

Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European

International Studies Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-15 September

2018.

‘Is the EU an agent of Collective Securitization?’, paper delivered at the 11th

Pan-

European Conference on International Relations, 13-16 September 2017,

Barcelona, Spain.

Roundtable Participant (invited) with Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University) and Marianna

Klochko (Ohio State University), Midwest Slavic Conference, Center for Slavic and

East European Studies, 9 April 2016.

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‘The EU’s security strategies for the global commons’, 9th Pan-European Conference on

International Relations, the European International Studies Association, 21-23

September 2015, Catania, Sicily.

‘Converging EU Security Strategies and Diverging National Interests?’ (coauthored with

Spyros Economides, LSE), 9th Pan-European Conference on International

Relations, the European International Studies Association, 21-23 September 2015,

Catania, Sicily.

‘Effective Multilateralism in the Commons: a theoretical introduction’, paper presented for

the EISA Workshop, 21-24 May 2014, Izmir, Turkey.

‘The Libyan Intervention and the EU or Why NATO is still Number One?’ prepared for the

2013 Meeting of the European International Studies Association, Warsaw, Poland,

18-21 September 2013.

‘The Libyan Abstention: Is Germany a (neoclassical) Realist power?’, prepared for the

2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 29 August

2013, Chicago, Il.

‘The EU Defence Industrial Policy: Supporting or Eroding NATO?’, paper presented at the

ECPR Conference, Bordeaux, France, 4-7 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.

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‘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, 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 2002.

“Is Germany a Good European? Or, Has Europe Been Good for Germany?” German

Studies Association Meeting, Washington, DC, 4-7 October 2001.

“Positive and Negative Identities in the Shaping of a New German Security Policy,”

(coauthored) German Studies Association Meeting, Washington, DC, 4-7 October

2001.

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“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.

“Security, Trade, and Regionalism: Implications for EU-US-Asian Relations,” European

Community Studies Association Meeting, 2-5 June 1999, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, PA.

“The Holocaust and the trajectory of post- cold war German foreign policy,” German

Studies Association Meeting, October 1999, Atlanta Georgia

“The Limits of German Power in Europe after the Cold War,” German Studies Association

Meeting, 8-11 October 1998, Salt Lake City, Utah

“Two Tiers or Two Speeds: The Double Expansion of Europe and the Search for a

European Security Identity,” ECSR/ISA Meeting, 16-20 September 1998, Vienna,

Austria.

“Germany and Europe: Hegemony, Dominance or Leadership?” German Studies

Association Meeting, 24-28 September 1997, Besthesda, MD.

“Third Bite at the Apple: Reconsidering German Hegemony in Post Cold War Europe,”

American Political Science Association Meeting, 31 August-3 September 1997,

Washington, DC.

“German Security and Enlarging Europe: Two Speeds are Better than One?,” German

Studies Association, 10-13 October 1996, Seattle, WA.

"Taking a Walk on the Supply Side: Market Structure and Weapons Control Regimes,”

(revised version) Western Political Science Association, 13-16 March 1996, San

Francisco, Ca.

"Taking a Walk on the Supply Side: Market Structure and Weapons Control Regimes,”

Midwest Political Science Association, 18-20 April 1996, Chicago, Il.

"The Security Architectures and Institutional Futures of Post-Maastricht Europe," BISA

conference, Southampton, England, 18-20 December 1995

"German-American Relations," German Studies Conference, 21-24 September 1995,

Chicago, Ill.

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"The Institutional Requirements of Security," PanEuropean Conference on International

Relations, Paris, France, 13-16 September 1995

"The Changing Definition of Security," ECSA Conference, Charleston, SC, 11-14 May

1995.

"Environmental Conditionality and Regional Development Banks: The Case of the EBRD,

EIB, and NIB," (revised version) 36th International Studies Association, Chicago

Ill., February 1995.

"German Security Policy in Post-Cold War Europe," German Studies Association Meeting,

Dallas, TX, October 1994.

"A reconceptualization of the security problem in post-cold war Europe," the American

Political Science Meeting, New York, New York, September 1994.

"Environmental Conditionality and Regional Development Banks: The Case of the EBRD,

EIB, and NIB," 35th Annual Meeting, International Studies Association,

Washington, D.C., 29 March-1 April 1994.

"Industry Concentration and the Prospects for Arms Technology Proliferation," 35th

Annual Meeting, International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 29 March-1

April 1994.

"Underwriting the Reconstruction of Europe: The Debt, Finance and Environmental

Regimes of Post-Yalta Europe," ISA-West, Monterey, CA, 29-31 October 1993.

"European (Im)migration and German Security," 89th Annual Meeting of the APSA,

Washington, DC, 2-5 September 1993.

"The Prospects for European Security Cooperation in the EC," 88th Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, 3-6 September 1992, Chicago, IL.

"Europe's Future: `Made in Germany'?", presented at 33rd Annual Meeting, International

Studies Association, 31 March-4 April 1992, Atlanta, GA.

"The German Security Strategy in Europe after Unification", presented at the 16th Annual

Meeting, German Studies Association, 26-29 September 1991, Los Angeles, CA.

"The Economic Institutions of European Security" 87th Annual Meeting of the American

Political Science Association, 29 August-1 September 1991, Washington, DC

"The German Architecture for the future European Security Order" 15th Annual Meeting,

German Studies Association, October 1991.

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"The Foreign Economic Policies of the Federal Republic of Germany: The Past as

Prologue for a Unified Germany?" 14th Annual Meeting, German Studies

Association, October 4-7, 1990.

"The Architectures and Institutions of the Future European Security Order: What Role for

Germany?" Conference Group on German Studies, 86th Meeting of the American

Political Science Association, August 30-September 2, 1990, Washington, DC..

"West German-American Relations: A Disintegrating Alliance?" 13th Annual Meeting,

German Studies Association, October 6-9, 1989.

"Economic Culture and Macroeconomic Policy Coordination: Stackelberg Warfare in the

Atlantic Economy," the International Studies Association Conference, March 28-

April 1, 1989, London, England.

"Economic Culture, Economic Interests, and Economic Institutions as Barriers to the

Coordination of Macroeconomic Policy," 16th Annual Meeting, Southern Political

Science Association, November 3-5, 1988, Atlanta, GA.

"At Cross Purposes: The United States, the Federal Republic, and the Atlantic Economy,

1949-1988," (revised version), 12th Annual Meeting, German Studies Association,

October 6-9, 1988, Philadelphia, PA.

"At Cross Purposes: The United States, the Federal Republic, and the Atlantic Economy,

1949-1988," 84th Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association,

Conference Group on German Studies, September 1-4, 1988, Washington, D.C.

"Towards an Explanation of West German International Monetary Policy, 1969-1973: The

Impact of Economic Culture on Economic Policy in Advanced Capitalist States,"

Annual Meeting, Northeastern Political Science Association, November 12-14,

1987, Philadelphia, PA.

Towards an Explanation of West German and British International Monetary Policy: The

Role of Economic Culture," 15th Annual Meeting, Southern Political Science

Association, November 5-7, 1987, Charlotte, NC.

"Economic Culture and Economic Management in an Open Economy: A Conceptual

Analysis," 1987 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,

April 8-11, 1987, Chicago, IL.

"Western Europe and NATO: Technical Fix or Fundamental Change?" 10th Annual

Meeting, European Studies Conference, October 9-12, 1985, Omaha, Ne.

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"The Nixon Doctrine and West German Economic Policy: The Case of Energy and Raw

Materials Policy, 1969-1971," 8th Annual Meeting, German Studies Association,

October 11-14, 1984, Denver, CO.

"Foreign Policy in an Open Economy: A Framework for Analysis," 9th Annual Meeting,

European Studies Conference, October 11-14, 1984, Omaha, NE.

Public Lectures.

‘NATO in the 21st Century’, SAIS, the Johns Hopkins University—Europe, Bologna,

Italy, 4 March 2015.

‘NATO and Europe: its only going to get worse’, Preparatory Meeting for the State of the

Union Conference (closed meeting attended by journalists from the Financial

Times (London), the Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), Le Monde

(Paris), and Les Echos (Paris) among others), 12 March 2015.

The EU in the Regional Maritime Commons’ University of Bologna, ISA, 5 May

Bologna 2015 (condition of ISA Senior Fellowship).

Speaker, ‘State of the Union’, conference, session II, Competing Views of Europe: The

EU and its role in the world from the perspective of the United States, China,

Russia, India and the Middle East’, 7 May 2015, Full details at:

https://stateoftheunion.eui.eu.

‘NATO and the Visegrad Nations’ University of Bologna, Forli Campus, 12 April 2015.

‘NATO after Afghanistan’ sponsored by the World Policy Institute, East Carolina

University, Greenville, North Carolina, 23 February 2013.

Commentary on public lecture by Larry Kaplan, Professor Emeritus, Kent State

University at Kent State University Lemnitzer Center for EU and NATO Studies,

‘NATO before the Korean War’, 6 April 2011.

‘Gulliver’s Travail: Crafting a Transatlantic Foreign Policy After the Cold War’, keynote

address, Germany & the US in a Globalized World, The Harry and Bernice

Gockel International Symposium, Missouri Southern State University and

Institute of International Studies, 28 October 2008.

‘NATO’s Future: Regeneration, Stable Condition, or Terminal Decline?’ public lecture,

Missouri Southern State University and Institute of International Studies, 29

October 2008.

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“Neither Hegemony nor Dominance: German Foreign Policy in Post-Cold War Europe,”

delivered at the International Studies Center, Rhodes College, Memphis Tenessee,

March 2001.

"The Security Requirements of Post-Cold War Europe,” delivered at the Center for

Global Studies, Denison University, November, 1994.

"The Prospects for NATO after German Unification," Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for

NATO Studies, Kent State University, November 1990.

"Western Europe and the Superpowers" MSU Evening College Global Issues Seminar,

February 1988.

Conferences Co-organized.

‘West European Politics Special Issue Workshop: Governing the European Security

Space: The EU as an Agent of Collective Securitization, 16-18 September 2016,

University of Bologna, Forli, Italy.

‘Europe’s Security Strategies’, workshop sponsored by the European International

Studies Association, Rapallo, Italy, 29 October-1 November 2014.

“NATO after 60 Years: Global Role or Regional Irrelevance?”, conference held at Kent

State University, Lemnitzer Center for EU and NATO Studies, 30 April- 1 May

2009

“European Neutrals and European Security”, conference held at University of Nicosia,

Nicosia, Cyprus, April 2009.

“National Security Cultures and Security Governance”, GARNET workshop, Suffolk

University, Boston, MA, 18-19 April 2008.

“Global Security Governance”, GARNET workshop, Mallorca, Spain, 4-6 September

2006.

“Global Security Governance” workshop held at IGCC, UC San Diego, 5 October 2002.

“Limiting Institutions? The Challenge of Eurasian Security” held at Lemnitzer Center for

NATO and EU Studies, Kent State University, 28-30 September 2001. Co-

organizer with Victor Papacosma (Kent State University) and Sean Kay (Ohio

Wesleyan University).

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Manuscript Review.

Journals:

Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Conflict and Cooperation,

Congress and the Presidency, Diplomatic History, European Journal of International

Relations; Chinese Journal of International Relations, European Journal of International

Security, European Security; Europe-Asia Studies; Foreign Policy Analysis, German

Studies Review; German Politics; Insight Turkey; International Affairs; International

Journal of Cultural Studies; International Journal of Production Economics;

International Studies Review; Journal of Asian and African Studies; Journal of Common

Market Studies; Journal of European Integration; Review of International Studies; Slavic

Review; West European Politics..

Book manuscripts and proposals:

Cambridge University Press, Keele University Press, Manchester University Press,

Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, St. Martin’s Press, Taylor and

Francis, & West Publishing.

Editorial and Advisory Boards.

Oxford Online Bibliographies (Advisory Board: 2010-12)

Dushkin Publishing (Academic Advisory Board: 1997-2010)

European Security (Editorial Board: 2009-present)

German Studies Review (Editorial Board: 1998-2011)

Ohio Journal of Economics and Politics (Coeditor: 1990-1996)

Major University and Department Service.

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 2018-2020

Chair, Department of Political Science Program Review, 2017; 2019

Chair, Graduate and Undergraduate Assessment and Benchmarking, 2008-2020

Chair, Retention, tenure and promotion committee, 2013-2020

Member, NEH Subcommittee, University Faculty Research Committee, 2016-2019

OTM Social Science Panel, University System of Ohio, Board of Regents, 2011-2020

TAG Political Science Panel, University System of Ohio, Board of Regents, 2016-2020

University Research Committee, 2016-2019

Chair, Distinguished Professor Committee 2012/2013 (guidelines for promotion)

Chair, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, Full Professor Committee, 2012-2013

Chair, Distinguished Professor Committee, 2010-11.

Member, Criminal Justice/Homeland Security Committee, 2010

Department Liaison, AAUP, 2010-2017

Chair, Full Professors Committee, 2009-2010.

Chair, Department Assessment Committee---Graduate Program, 2005-present

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Chair, Department Assessment Committee---Undergraduate Program, 2002-present

Chair, Graduate Program Committee, 2006-2007

Chair, Comparative Politics Search Committee, 2004-2005

Member, University Full Professor Promotion Committee, 2004-2005.

Chair, Department Assessment Committee----Undergraduate Program, 1999-2003

Member, University of Akron Press editorial board, 1998-2000

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 1997-1998

Chair, Comprehensive Graduate Reading List Committee, Comparative and International,

October 1997-June 1998

Member, Peer Review of Teaching Committee, October 1997-June 1998

Chair, Department Graduate Committee, July 1997-October 1998

University Review Committee, Sociology Department, 1996-97

Member, Task Force for Ohio School of International Business. June-July 1993

Member, Department Committee on the Five Year Plan, 1993-1994.

Member, Department Committee on Peer Review, 1993-1994.

Member, Department Committee on Assessment, 1993-1994.

Member, University of Akron Phi Beta Kappa Committee. 1991-1995

Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Akron,

1990-97.

Chair, Buchtel College Council Curriculum Committee, 1989-1991

Chair, Buchtel College Council, 1990-1992

Department Representative, Buchtel College Council, 1989-1993, University of

Akron

Curriculum Committee, James Madison College, Michigan State University, 1986-1988.

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards 2015: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute

2015: ISA Senior Fellow, University of Bologna

2013: EISA Workshop travel grant, co-principal investigator (with Spyros

Economides), Rapallo, Italy

2001: The Chair’s Award. Outstanding Achievement, Professional and

Community Service, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, University of

Akron, 2001

1993: Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Akron

1988: Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Akron

1986: Travel Grant, James Madison College, Michigan State University

1984: Travel Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Barbara

1983-1984: Regents' Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

1982-1983: Fulbright-Hays Graduate Fellowship

1981-1982: Teaching Assistant Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of

California, Santa Barbara

1980-1981: Fellowship, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

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Other Professional Activities

Panel Convener, European International Studies Association, Prague, Czech Republic,

12-16 September 2018.

Attended Council on Foreign Relations Educators Workshop, 19-20 April 2018, New

York, New York.

Panel Convener, European International Studies Association, Warsaw, Poland, 18-21

September 2013.

Participant, Aspen Institute Italia, Rome, Italy, 30 November-1 December 2012

External Researcher, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico,

2011-2014.

Co-President, Conference Group on German Politics, 2004-2006.

GSA Conference panel coordinator, political science, for 1995 and 2004.

Midwest Regional Representative, Conference Group for German Studies, 2000-2006

Interim Political Science Editor, German Studies Review, 2000-2001

Executive Committee, German Studies Association, 1995-1998

Discussant, Panel chair or Roundtable participant at various meetings of the

American Political Science Association, European Consortium for Political Research,

European International Studies Association, German Studies Association, International

Studies Organization, and Southern Political Science Association.