Vivien A. Schmidt (BA Bryn Mawr College, MA, PhD University of Chicago) is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University as well as Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. She has published over 100 academic arties and chapters in books and is the author or editor of nine books. Recent publications include Democracy in Europe (Oxford 2006), The Futures of European Capitalism (Oxford 2002), Welfare and Work in the Open Economy (2 vols, co-ed. with F. W. Scharpf, Oxford 2000), “Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse” Annual Review of Political Science (2008), and “Putting the Political Back into Political Economy by Bringing the State Back in Yet Again,” World Politics (2009). Recent awards and distinctions include an honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) (2008); the Franqui Interuniversity Chair, Belgium (2007); Visiting Researcher at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po, Paris (2007). She is past head of the European Union Studies Association-USA and has consulted widely in the US and Europe on issues related to European government, business and US-EU relations.

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