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Visiting Scholars

Melanie Morisse-Schilbach

Institute for Political Sciences, University of Dresden, Germany

September 2009 – April 2010

Email: morisse-schilbach [@] berkeley.edu

Research interest: Sciences and international politics, democratization, the international relations of the European Union, diplomacy, foreign policy analysis

Teaching: International Politics, European Integration, foreign policy analysis

Education

  • 2005, PhD in Political Sciences, thesis on “Diplomacy and European Foreign Policy,” Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Kreile

  • 2000-2001, Visiting Research Student, Department of International Relations, LSE London

  • 1998-2001, Humboldt University of Berlin, Fellow at the Graduate Research Group “The New Europe: National and International Dimen(z)sions of Change”

  • 1997, Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) in Diplomacy and International Relations, Sorbonne- Paris I, Department of International Relations, France, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Charles Zorgbibe, Thesis on “France, Europe and the Algerian Crisis”

  • 1995, MA in Political Sciences, Law, Communication Sciences, University of Mainz, Germany

  • 1994, Diplôme d’Etudes Européennes, Diploma in European Studies, Sorbonne-Paris III, France

Selected Prizes and Scholarships

  • 2005, PhD Thesis, Prize of the Universities of the Federal States Berlin and Brandenburg for outstanding research in European integration (“Europapreis”)

  • 2000, EUSSIRF program award, London School of Economics and Social Sciences, LSE, London

  • 1998-2001, Scholarship, German Research Association (DFG)

  • 1996-1997, Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD)

Professional Experience

  • 2001 to Present, Research fellow and lecturer, Institute of Political Sciences, University of Dresden

Publications (Books)

  • (work in progress) Wissen, Wissenschaft und Global Commons. Konturen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes (Nomos) (with Jost Halfmann)

  • 2008, Demokratische Außenpolitik und Geheimdienste. Aspekte eines Widerspruchs in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Israel, USA und Frankreich im Vergleich, (Verlag Dr. Köster, Berlin) (with Anke Peine)

  • 2006, Diplomatie und Europäische Außenpolitik: Europäisierungseffekte im Kontext von Intergouvernementalismus am Beispiel von Frankreich und Großbritannien, (”Internationale Beziehungen: edited by Sektion Internationale Politik, DVPW, Nomos).

  • 1999, L'Europe et la question algérienne. Vers une européanisation de la politique algérienne de la France? (Perspectives internationales, edited by Charles Zorgbibe, Presses Universitaires de France, PUF).

Publications (Works in Progress)

  • International Institutions, Epistemic Communities, and Political Change: Democratization by default? The case of Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea protection regime

  • Ties that Bind? Linkages, Leverages and Political Change in the Case of Algeria and the EU

  • Sciences as Political Actors in i(I)nternational Relations: A Disciplinary Inquiry

  • Sciences, Knowledge and Political Change: When Scientists become “Democratizer by Default”

Publications (Selected Book Chapters, Journal Articles)

  • 2009, “Forstwissenschaften und die Globale Governance des Waldes,”in Waldökologie, Landschaftsforschung und Naturschutz 8, 107-117 (with Stefan Werland).

  • 2009, “Externe Demokratisierung jenseits von EU-Mitgliedschaft: Erfolgsaussichten für Algerien,”in Harder, Cilia; Jünemann, Annette, Stetter, Stephan and Martin Beck (eds.): Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch. Zwischen Transformation und Autoritarismus, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.

  • 2006, “Historischer Institutionalismus,”in Bieling, Hans-Jürgen and Marika Lerch (eds.): Theorien der europäischen Integration, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (1st ed. 2005)

  • 2005, “France,”in Hocking, Brian und David Spence (eds.): Integrating Diplomats? The Foreign Ministries of European Union Member States, Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan

  • 2001, “Domestic Institutions in European Foreign Policy-Making - Do They Matter?”in Willa, Pierre and Nicolas Levrat (eds.): Actors and Models. Assessing European Union's External Capability and Influence. Coll. Euryopa. Etudes; 11, Institut Européen de l'Université de Genève, Genf.

  • 2001, “Europe – Algérie : L’ingérence impossible,” in : Géopolitique africaine 3.

Languages

  • German: native
  • English: fluency
  • French: fluency
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