Oliver Buntrock is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) at the University of Bremen, holds a scholarship by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, and is specializing in the field of international relations and the European Union. He studied Political Science, Contemporary History, and Constitutional and Public International Law at the University of Augsburg and the Technical University of Munich in Germany. His research interests are institution-induced problem-solving, multi-level governance, applications of game theory, international relations theory, and international law. At Chapel Hill, he concentrates primarily on the development of the central argument of his dissertation thesis which he denotes as “problem-oriented micro-institutionalization,” especially regarding the regulation of the European steel crises.

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Arjan Schakel studied Biology (Master in 2003) and Political Science (Master in 2004) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently he is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is working on the project of Multi-level Governance and European Integration and is especially interested in the division of authority across levels of government. Arjan has been a visiting scholar at CES in Fall 2005 and will be visiting again in Spring 2007.

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