Books by Former IES Director Barry Eichengreen and Associate Director Beverly Crawford

The European Economy in an American Mirror
Barry Eichengreen, former IES Director and Professor of Economics and Political Science at UC Berkeley, along with Michael Landesman, Professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, and Dieter Stiefel, Professor at the Department for Social and Economic History and the Department of Economics, University of Vienna, have just coedited a volume comparing American and European economic realities.

Europe’s economy is under strain due to lagging productivity growth, an aging population, the difficulties of adjustment in an enlarged European Union, and the challenges of globalization. In comparison with the United States, rates of growth of GDP per capita and labor productivity are anemic, raising questions about the viability of a distinct European model. In the book an array of international contributors use the comparison with the United States as a way of taking the temperature of the European economy.

Power and German Foreign Policy: Embedded Hegemony in Europe
What will German foreign policy look like in 2015? IES Associate Director Beverly Crawford dares to speculate by making a provocative argument: What drives German policy is its power position in Europe. Carefully examining German diplomatic and military manoeuvres in the Balkans, its role in European Monetary Union, and its leadership in curbing Europe's proliferation of WMD technology, Professor Crawford shows how German power is linked to its "embedded hegemony" in Europe and to the changing state of its economy. In each case she shows how those linkages interact to shape foreign policy.