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May 2004

Monday, May 3rd, 12:30 pm
Jürgen Neyer, Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Centre for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy, Free University Berlin
"Weak States in the WTO: An Analysis of Transatlantic Trade Disputes"
The talk addresses the question of whether the EU's conduct of transatlantic trade disputes structurally differs from that of the US. It develops a set of hypothesis concerning the relative ability of a multi-level system to comply with inconvenient commitments and confronts them with available WTO data. The talk develops the argument that the EU is comparatively less oriented towards litigation and more towards political compromise. Its ability to compromise, however, is seriously restricted if blocking minorities of member states or mobilized publics object.

PD Dr. Phil. Jürgen Neyer is Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Freie Universität Berlin. Born in 1966, he received his PhD. from the University of Frankfurt in 1995, and his Habilitation from the University of Bremen in 2002. In summer 2004 he works at the Centre for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley. Before, he has served as a Professor for International Political Economy (Vertretung) at the Geschwister Scholl Institut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and as a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, the Center for European Law and Policy at the University of Bremen and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Jürgen Neyer is the author of Spiel ohne Grenzen (1996), Postnationale politische Herrschaft. Vergesellschaftung und Verrechtlichung jenseits des Staates (2004) and co-author of Die Entgrenzung der Weltwirtschaft (1998) (with Mathias Albert, Lothar Brock, Stephan Hessler and Ulrich Menzel). He has contributed articles to "Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen," "Politische Vierteljahresschrift," "Journal of European Public Policy," "European Law Journal," "Internationale Politik," "Journal of Common Market Studies" and others. His research interests include European integration, international relations theory, development theory and postnational governance.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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"Portuguese Studies Program Student Social"
See some old friends and make some new ones! Refreshments, music, and lots of fun. Open to students of Portuguese descent, and/or those who are interested in Portugal or the Portuguese language.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Kasimierz Z. Poznanski, Professor of Economics, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
"Poland on the Road to the EU"
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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IES SYMPOSIUM
TOWARDS A NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT? THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL TRENDS AND STATE TRADITIONS ON PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS
Institute of European Studies
"The Many Faces of the European Regulatory State"
Martin Lodge, The London School of Economics and Political Science
AND "Rolling Back the State? A Tale of Privatization in the US and Germany"
Bert A. Rockman, Ohio State University
Eckhard Schroeter, UC Berkeley
Trevor Brown, Ohio State University
Yijia Jing, Ohio State University

This symposium is part of the IES-sponsored collaborative research project on Comparative Administrative Reform directed by Joel D. Aberbach, University of California, Los Angeles and Eckhard Schroeter, University of California, Berkeley.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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2004 ANNUAL CICIS CONFERENCE
SPACES IN TIME: ITALIAN GEOGRAPHIES OF MODERNITY
View the conference flyer and schedule... (pdf, 1,486kb)

Geballe Room, Townsend Center (220 Stephens Hall)