MILADA ANNA VACHUDOVA

Department of Political Science tel: 1 919 962-0415

University of North at Carolina Chapel Hill fax: 1 919 962-0432

Campus Box 3265, Hamilton Hall vachudov@email.unc.edu

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265 U.S.A.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Politics, University of Oxford, St. Antony's College. 1997

Master of Philosophy, European Politics, University of Oxford, St. Antony's College. 1993

Bachelor of Arts, International Relations, honors and distinction, Stanford University. 1991

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science 2007-

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science 2001-07

Honors and Fellowships

XIIth Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.

This prize was awarded to my book Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After Communism (Oxford University Press, 2005) by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), on the advice of a jury selected by the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR).

2006 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, co-winner.

This prize was awarded to my book Europe Undivided, as an outstanding monograph on the international relations or foreign policy of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).

2006 Best Paper Award, from the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), for the best paper presented at the 2005 APSA Convention.

Institute for Arts and Humanities Fellow, UNC at Chapel Hill 2005

Spray-Randleigh Foundation Fellow, UNC at Chapel Hill 2002, 2004, 2005

Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies 2000-2001

European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University 1999-2000

Postdoctoral Fellow, EU Center of New York City, Columbia University

Visiting Scholar, Center of International Studies, Princeton University 1998-1999

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation 1997-1998

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague

Predoctoral Fellow, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University 1994-1996

British Marshall Scholar, University of Oxford 1991-1994

Publications

Book:

Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After Communism

Oxford University Press, 2005.

Refereed Articles:

Milada Anna Vachudova (2008) “Tempered by the EU? Political Parties and Party Systems Before

and After Accession,” Journal of European Public Policy 15, 6: forthcoming.

Milada Anna Vachudova (2008) “Center-Right Parties and Political Outcomes in East Central

Europe,” Party Politics 14, 4 (September): forthcoming.

Milada Anna Vachudova and Liesbet Hooghe (2008) “Postcommunist Politics in a Magnetic Field:

How Transition and EU Accession Structure Party Competition on European Integration” Comparative European Politics, forthcoming.

Grzegorz Ekiert, Jan Kubik and Milada Anna Vachudova, “Democracy in the Postcommunist

World,” East European Politics and Societies 21, 1 (Winter 2007): 7-30.

Stephen Whitefield, Milada Anna Vachudova, Marco R. Steenbergen, Robert Rohrschneider, Gary

Marks, Matthew P. Loveless, and Liesbet Hooghe, “Do Expert Surveys Produce Consistent Estimates of Party Stances on European Integration: Comparing Expert Surveys in the Difficult Case of Central and Eastern Europe,” Electoral Studies 26, 1 (March 2007): 50-61.

Andrew Moravcsik and Milada Anna Vachudova, "National Interests, State Power and EU

Enlargement," East European Politics and Societies 17, 1 (Winter 2003): 42-57.

Andrew Moravcsik and Milada Anna Vachudova, “Preferences, Power, and Equilibrium: The Causes and Consequences of EU Enlargement,” in Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier eds., The Politics of European Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches. London: Routledge, 2005: 198-212. Revised and expanded version.

Perspectives: The Central European Review of International Affairs, Prague, 19 (2003): 21-31. Revised version.

Center for European Studies Working Paper No. 97, Harvard University, 2002.

Unabridged version. www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/publications/Moravcsik_Vachudova.pdf

Milada Anna Vachudova and Timothy Snyder, "Are Transitions Transitory? Two Models of

Political Change in East Central Europe Since 1989," East European Politics and Societies 11, 1 (Winter 1997): 1-35.

Refereed Articles in Progress:

Milada Anna Vachudova, “Democratization in Postcommunist Europe: Illiberal Regimes and the Leverage of International Actors.” Revise and Resubmit at International Organization.

Awarded the prize ‘Best Paper Delivered at the 2005 APSA Conference’ by the European Politics and Society division of the APSA (see above).

Center for European Studies Working Paper forthcoming, Harvard University, 2006.

Unabridged version. www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/publications/

Book Chapters (all are single-authored)

“Historical Institutionalism and the EU’s Eastern Enlargement,” in Kathleen McNamara and

Sophie Meunier eds., Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty. The State of the European Union Volume 8. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007: 105-122.

“Trade and the Internal Market in the EU’s European Neighborhood Policy” in Katja Weber,

Michael E. Smith and Michael Baun eds., Governing Europe’s New Neighborhood: Partners or Periphery?, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007: 97-113.

“The European Union: The Causal Behemoth of Transnational Influence on Postcommunist

Politics,” in Mitchell A. Orenstein, Stephen Bloom and Nicole Lindstrom eds., Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming 2008.

“Political Competition and Democratic Outcomes in East Central Europe,” in Hilary Appel ed.,

Evaluating Success and Failure in the Post-communist Transitions. Claremont: Claremont McKenna Keck Center, 2005: 177-204.

“Strategies for European Integration and Democratization in the Balkans,” in Marise Cremona ed.,

The Enlargement of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003: 141-160.

Reprinted in Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Bratislava, Spring 2003: 92-105.

The Czech Republic: The Unexpected Force of Institutional Constraints,” in Jan Zielonka and Alex

Pravda eds., Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001: 325-362.

“The Atlantic Alliance and The Kosovo Crisis: The Impact of Expansion and the Behavior of the

New Allies,” in Pierre Martin and Mark Brawley eds., Allied Force or Forced Allies? Alliance Politics and the Meaning of Kosovo. New York: Palgrave, 2000: 201-220.

“Eastern Europe as Gatekeeper: The Immigration and Asylum Policies of an Enlarging European

Union,” in Peter Andreas and Timothy Snyder eds., The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Control in North America and Europe. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000: 153-172.

“The European Union Faces East,” in Peter Rutland ed., Holding the Course: 1998 Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000: 43-47.

“The Czech Republic: The End of the Klaus Era” and “Was it Privatization?” in Peter Rutland ed., The Challenge of Integration: 1997 Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999: 76-87.

“Peaceful Transformations in East Central Europe,” in Michael E. Brown ed., The International Implications of Internal Conflict. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996: 69-105.

Book Review:

Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions. By Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook and Olga Shvetsova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Slavic Review 64, 3 (Spring 2005): 632.

Slovak Translation: “Visegradská štvorka: je ina alternatíva?” Medzinarodné Otazky, Bratislava, 2, 4 (1993): 64-78.

"Divisions in the Czech Communist Party," RFE/RL Research Report, 2, 37 (17 September 1993): 28-33.

Teaching Record

Courses and Advisees at UNC Chapel Hill:

Undergraduate:

Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe (Poli 438/Ints 438)

Politics of East Central Europe (Poli 236)

Graduate:

Comparative Political Research and Analysis (Poli 730)

The Politics of the European Union (Poli 273)

Comparative Democratization (Poli 736)

Teaching Positions Prior To UNC Chapel Hill

Lecturer, Academy of European Law Summer School, European University Institute 2001

Lecturer, EU Center of New York City and SIPA, Columbia University 1999-2000

Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague 1997-1998

Teaching Assistant, Central European University, Prague 1992, 1993

External Grants for Current Project

Democratization in the Western Balkans

Including field research for my second book in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Macedonia during the summers and autumn semesters of 2004 and 2005.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research 2004-2006

PI, 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2006. Total grant: $29,900.

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad, East Central and South Eastern Europe 2004

PI, 20 August 2004 – 15 January 2005. Total grant: $31,929

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, EES, Summer Research Fellow 2004, 2005

PI, Total grant: $9,000

Full list of internal grants available upon request.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

May 1 2008 – April 31 2009

“Why Change? Political Parties and Party Systems Before and After Accession,” Conference: “The European Union after Enlargement: Policies and Politics in a New Context,” University of Washington, May 2008.

May 1 2007 – April 31 2008

“Explaining Party System Shifts in Postcommunist Europe,” Institute D’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, November 2007.

“Economic Reform in the Western Balkans: Translating External Leverage into Domestic Change,” Conference: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 2007.

“Explaining Party System Shifts in Postcommunist Europe,” Workshop, London School of Economics, London, June 2007.

“Historical Institutionalism and the EU’s Eastward Enlargement,” and “Political Change in the Western Balkans: What Can the EU Deliver?,” European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference, Montreal, May 2007.

May 1 2006 – April 31 2007

“Democratization in Postcommunist Europe and EU Enlargement,” general talks for a large audience, McGill University and University of Montreal, February 2007; and Indiana University, April 2007.

May 1 2005 – April 31 2006

“Democratization in the Balkans: Illiberal Regimes and the Leverage of International Actors,”

Harvard Comparative Politics Seminar, Center for European Studies and CGIS, Harvard University, April 2006.

Yale International Relations Speaker Series, Yale University, April 2006.

http://www.yale.edu/polisci/info/Workshops/IR/04-11-06-Vachudova.pdf

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Conference: “Waves and Troughs of Postcommunist Transitions,” Stanford University, April 2006.

Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies, Sarajevo, October 2006.

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, September 2005.

“The Passive and Active Leverage of Transnational Actors.” Conference: “Transnational and National Politics in Postcommunist Europe,” Syracuse University, April 2006.

“Democracy Promotion and the EU’s Eastward Enlargement: Mechanisms that Translate External Leverage into Domestic Change.” Conference: Council for European Studies Biennial Conference, Chicago, March/April 2006.

“The Foreign Policy of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans and Beyond.” Conference: International Studies Association, San Diego, March 2006.

“Europe Undivided” book talk on the panel “New Books on the Future of an Enlarged EU.” Conference: International Studies Association, San Diego, March 2006.

“The Future of Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Conference: “The Tenth Anniversary of the Dayton Accords: Reflections on Post-Conflict State and Nation-Building,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, December 2005.

“Historical Institutionalism and the EU’s Eastward Enlargement.” Conference: “The State of the European Union,” Princeton University, September 2005.

“Euroskepticism After Communism” with Liesbet Hooghe. Conference: “Euroskepticism – Causes and Consequences,” University of Amsterdam (VU), Amsterdam, July 2005.

“The Future of the Stabilization and Association Process.” Conference: “Assessing Developments in the Western Balkans: Problems of Today, Ideas for the Future,” Bratislava, May 2005.

Book Talks and Press Conferences for Europe Undivided: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, June 2005; Evropski Forum in Belgrade, September 2005; Georgetown University in Washington DC, November 2005; Central European University in Budapest, November 2005; and American University, April 2006.

May 1 2004 – April 31 2005

“Europe Undivided” book talk on panel on new books on EU enlargement. Conference: European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference, Austin, April 2005.

“Trade and the Internal Market.” Conference: Europe’s New Neighborhood: A Preliminary Assessment,” European Union Center, University System of Georgia, Atlanta, April 2005.

“Domestic Competition and the Reform Trajectories of Democratizing States,” Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, March 2005.

“Debating the Impact of EU Leverage on Postcommunist Polities.” Conference: “Assessing the Enlargement of the European Union,” European Union Center, University of Washington, Seattle, February 2005.

“Democratization and the Prospect of EU Enlargement in the Balkans,” London School of Economics, London, December 2004.

Book Talks for Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After Communism,” Center for European Studies, University of Washington, May 2004; School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, December 2004; and University of Oxford, March 2005.

May 1 2003 – April 31 2004

“Party Change and Party Competition in Eastern Europe,” Workshop: Party System Change and European Integration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2004.

“Roundtable on EU Enlargement: Debating the Costs and Benefits for New Members, Old Members and EU Institutions.” Conference: Council for European Studies 14^th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2004.

“Theorizing the Benefits of EU Membership.” Workshop: The New Face of Europe, University of Florida, Gainesville, February 2004.

“National Interests, State Power and EU Enlargement.” Conference: Dilemmas of Europeanization: Politics and Society in Eastern and Central Europe after EU Enlargement,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 2003.

“The European Union, the Balkans and Turkey: Can ‘Soft Power’ Bring Stability and Democracy?,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., October 2003.

“Political Competition and the Reform Trajectories of Postcommunist States.” Conference: American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, August 2003.

May 1 2002 – April 31 2003

“External Causes of Liberalization: Eastern Europe and the European Union.” Workshop: “The Political Economy of Liberalization,” UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University, April 2003.

"Political Competition and the Leverage of the European Union on Democratizing States," Mellon Postcommunist Seminar, Department of Political Science, Cornell University, March 2003.

“International Institutions and Choosing the Path of Economic Reform.” Conference: Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Portland, February 2003.

“Political Competition and the Reform Trajectories of Postcommunist States.” Workshop: “Evaluating Success and Failure in Postcommunist Reform,” Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, February 2003.

“National Interests, State Power and EU Enlargement,” Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava, December 2002. Also: University of Toronto, March 2003; Syracuse University, March 2003; and Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, May 2003.

“Oppositions and the Alternation of Power.” Conference: American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, August 2002.

May 1 2001 – April 31 2002

“Bargaining Over EU Enlargement,” Department of Political Science and CSEES, Ohio State University, Columbus, April 2002.

“The Leverage of the European Union on Reform in Postcommunist Europe.” Workshop: “Enlargement and European Governance,” European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Joint Sessions, Turin, Italy, March 2002.

“Integration, Security and Immigration: The European Agendas of Eastern Europe’s Right Wing Parties,” on the panel “Far Right in Europe.” Conference: Council for European Studies Biennial Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2002.

“The Leverage of the European Union on Reform in Postcommunist Europe.” Conference: Council for European Studies Biennial Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2002.

“Promoting Ethnic Tolerance and Democratic Reform in the Balkans,” Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 2001.

“The European Union and the Future of the Balkans” (delivered in Czech: “Vliv Evropské unie na vývoj na Balkáne”), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, October 2001.

“Right-Wing Parties and Political Outcomes in Eastern Europe” on the panel “Regimes and the Right.” Conference: American Political Science Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, August 2001.

“The Leverage of International Institutions on Aspiring Member States: The European Union and Eastern Europe.” European Forum, European University Institute, Florence, April 2001.

Also, conference: European Community Studies Association Biennial Conference, Madison, June 2001.

2000-2001

“Consolidating Liberal Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: International Incentives and Domestic Actors.” Yale University, New Haven, February 2001.

Also: Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March 2001.

“Central Europe and the West.” Conference: “Where is Central Europe Now? The New Politics of a Shifting Idea,” St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, June 2000.

“Stabilizing the Balkans: The Strategy of the European Union.” European Security Studies Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 1999.

Also: Department of Political Science and the Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, Stanford, January 2000.

“Democratization After Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans.” Conference: “International Influence on Democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe,” Institute of International Relations, Prague, March 2000.

Before 2000

“The Domestic Implications of Striving for NATO Membership.” Conference: “NATO: The First Fifty Years,” NATO and the German Research Council, Brussels, May 1999.

“U.S.-E.U. Relations and the New Transatlantic Agenda.” Conference: “The Future of Transatlantic Relations,” The Hungarian Atlantic Council, Budapest, February 1999.

"The Leverage of the European Union on Aspiring Members.” Conference: American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, September 1998.

Also: Center of International Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, December 1998.

"Making Foreign Policy in Transition States." Conference: "Democracy in External Policymaking," Phare/Tacis Democracy Program and IEWS, Bucharest, November 1998.

"Migration from Eastern Europe: The Impact on Western Europe." Conference: "Root Causes of Forced Migration," Institute for Public Policy Research, London, January 1996.

Professional Service To Discipline (Abridged)

Referee Activity

For the following journals: International Organization, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Politics, International Security, Review of International Political Economy, East European Politics and Societies, Comparative European Politics, Democratization, Political Studies Review, Nationalities Papers, Ethnicities, Political Power and Social Theory, West European Politics.

For the following publishers: Oxford University Press, US + UK.

For the following grant-giving agencies: Title VIII South East European Research Scholar Program, American Councils for International Education.

Other Service to Discipline

May 1 2007 – April 31 2008

Discussant, “Integrating the Literatures on Social Networks and Diffusion in Comparative Politics,” Workshop: “Methodological Frontiers in Comparative Politics,” Duke University, April 2008.

Discussant, “Comparing EU and US Strategies for External Democracy Promotion,” panel at the APSA Annual Convention, Chicago, September 2007.

Discussant, “Accession and the limits of Europeanization,” and “The European Union and domestic institutional change,” panels at the European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference, Montreal, May 2007.

Award Committee Chair, Best Dissertation Field Research in 2006, Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association, for the September 2007 Annual Convention.

Award Committee, Best Paper Delivered at the 2005 EUSA Convention, European Union Studies Association, for the May 2007 Convention.

Member, Editorial Board, European Journal of Public Policy.

May 1 2006 – April 31 2007

Speaker, ‘The Cross-Regional Applicability of the Postcommunist Experience,” roundtable at the AAASS Annual Conference, Washington D.C., November 2006.

Speaker, Conference on Hungary for Ambassador Designate April Foley, U.S. State Department, Washington DC, July 2006.

Speaker, “The EU Accession Process in the Balkans: Prospects and Challenges,” U.S. Department of State, June 2006. One of two speakers with Gerald Knaus, European Stability Initiative.

Elected to the Board of the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association, September 2006, three year term.

May 1 2005 – April 31 2006

Speaker, ‘Author Meets Critics’ roundtable on Frank Schimmelfennig’s book The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe, Council for European Studies Biennial Conference, Chicago, March/April 2006.

Discussant, “Peaceful Regime Change? The EU’s Democratization Strategies in Eastern Europe and Beyond” panel, International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, March 2006.

Discussant, “The State of the European Union” panel, International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, March 2006.

Speaker, “Roundtable on the Next 3-5 Years in the Region,” Conference on Alternative Capitalisms and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe, U.S. State Department, December 2005.

Rapporteur, Working Group 3: “The European Union and the Promotion of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,” IV General Assembly and Annual Conference of the Club of Madrid, Prague, November 2005.

Lectures on international relations theory and European integration, Faculty of Politics, Belgrade, November 2005.

Panel Organizer, “International Actors and Domestic Regimes,” American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, September 2005.

Discussant, “Governance in Wider Europe” panel, American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, September 2005.

Speaker, “Foreign Policy,” Conference on Bulgaria for Ambassador John Beyrle, U.S. State Department, Washington DC, August 2005.

Award Committee, Best Dissertation Field Research, Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association.

May 1 2004 – April 31 2005

Discussant, “The Consequences of EU Enlargement: A First Assessment,” panel at the European Union Association Biennial Conference, Austin, March 2005.

Panel Organizer, “Perspectives on European Union Enlargement: New Research and the Future of an Enlarged EU,” panel at the European Union Association Biennial Conference, Austin, March 2005.

Public Lecture, “The EU and the US: Strategies for Spreading Democracy,” public lecture at Brigham Young University, March 2005.

Discussant at workshop on Timothy Frye’s manuscript “ Post-communist Political and Economic Liberalization in Comparative Perspective,” Duke University, February 2005.

May 1 2003 – April 31 2004

Roundtable Organizer, “EU Enlargement: Debating the Costs and Benefits for New Members, Old Members and EU Institutions,” Council for European Studies 14^th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2004.

Panel Organizer, “Explaining the Reform Trajectories of Post-Communist States,” American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, August 2003.

May 1 2002 – April 31 2003

Member, “Future of Europe” Working Group on the EU’s External Relations, University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the European Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, London, 2002-03.

Panel Organizer, “International Institutions and the Construction of New Knowledge in the Post-Communist Transitions,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, Portland, March 2003.

Speaker, “Enlargement Challenges.” Conference on “The European Union: The Road Not Taken,” Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the U.S. Department of State, Washington D.C., September 2002.

Panel Organizer, “Evaluating Democracy and the EU in Postcommunist Europe,” American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, August 2002.

Commentator, “Desir d’Europe.” Program of the radio station France Culture, Paris, on Euro-Atlantic relations and the position of European right-wing parties towards European integration, June 2002.

May 1 2001 – April 31 2002

Discussant, “Europe and its Eastern Borders.” Panel at the Council for European Studies Biennial Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2002.

Panel Organizer, “The Influence of the EU on Reform in Eastern Europe,” Council for European Studies 13^th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2002.

Speaker, “Migration and EU Enlargement.” Conference on “EU Migration Trends and Prospects,” Bureau of Intelligence and Research and U.S. Department of State, Washington DC, February 2002.

Before May 2001

Discussion Chair, “Europe 2021: Beyond Visible and Invisible Borders,” The British Council, Krakow, April 2001.

Rapporteur, “The European Defense Policy and EU Enlargement to Eastern Europe,” Working Group on the Eastward Enlargement of the EU, European University Institute, September 2000.

Roundtable Organizer and Discussant, “The Enlargement of the European Union: What is At Stake?” with Michael Leigh, Directorate General for Enlargement, European Commission and Andrew Moravcsik, European Union Center of Harvard University, April 2000.

Keynote Speaker, “The EU and Postcommunist Europe.” McLaine East/Central European Leadership Lecture Series, International House, Columbia University, New York, January 2000.

Roundtable Participant, “The Choice for Europe,” with Andrew Moravcsik, Helen Milner and Glenda Rosenthal, Columbia University, November 1999.

Panel Organizer and Moderator, “Regional Stability and Cooperation in Eastern Europe,” with ministers and ambassadors from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the E.U. at the conference “Ten Years After” commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, Prague Castle, November 1999.

Roundtable Organizer and Participant, “The Democratic Decade, Transition in Eastern Europe 1989-99,” with Josef Zieleniec, former Czech Foreign Minister, and Anna Seleny, Peter Kenen, and Michael Doyle, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, March 1999.

Keynote Speaker, "Towards a New European Order." Conference: "Inclusivity and the Enlargement of NATO and the EU," Wilton Park, United Kingdom, October 1998.

Also: London School of Economics, London, March 1999.

Professional Service At UNC-Chapel Hill

Department service and presentations to colleagues and students are omitted.

Chair, Subfield of Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, 2007-08.

Member, Collaborative Research Project, “National Parties and the European Union.” Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002-2008.

Member, British Marshall Scholarship Selection Committee, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008.

Organizer, Workshops “The European Union as a Foreign Policy Actor,” 2007 + 2008.

“Russia and the Future of Democratization in Eurasia,” with Hilary Appel, Graeme Robertson and Stephen Hanson, October 2007.

“The EU and Democratization After Communism: How Much and Why?” with Mitchell Orenstein, Grigore Pop-Eleches, John Gould and Graeme Robertson, April 2008.

Speaker, “US and EU Strategies for Democracy Promotion,” Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative, Wake Forest University, funded by the U.S. State Department, program for youth from emerging democracies, UNC Chapel Hill, June 2006.

Speaker, “The U.S. and Europe,” World View Global Education Leaders’ Program, for North Carolina K-12 and community college administrators developing global programs for their schools and colleges, UNC Chapel Hill, June 2006.

Speaker, “Understanding the EU,” EU Teacher Workshop, for North Carolina middle and high school teachers, UNC Chapel Hill, May 2006.

Speaker, “Democracy Promotion and the European Union,” West Triangle Chapter, United Nations Association, Chapel Hill, May 2006.

Speaker (sole), European Union Enlargement Workshop, Associate Director’s Meeting, European Union Centers of Excellence, Washington DC, organized by the Center for European Studies and the EU Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, April 2006.

Speaker, “US and the European Union,” World View Residential Leadership Program in Global Education, UNC Chapel Hill, June 2004.

Member, Comparative Politics Search Committee, Department of Political Science, 2003-04.

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Political Science, 2002-03, 2003-04.

Speaker, “US and the European Union,” World View Residential Leadership Program in Global Education, UNC Chapel Hill, June 2003.

Speaker, “The Challenge of Democracy and Europeanization for Czech and Slovak Politics” Fulbright-Hays Orientation Seminar, UNC Chapel Hill, May 2003.

Organizer, visit to UNC of Valerie Bunce (Cornell University) for a public lecture on comparative democratization and meetings with Department graduate students, supported by various university bodies, chiefly CSEEES, April 2003.

Co-Organizer, visits to UNC of several political scientists including James Caporaso (University of Washington), Rachel Epstein (University of Denver), Anna Grzymala-Busse (Yale University), Kate McNamara (Princeton University), and Alec Stone Sweet (University of Oxford) as part of the Center for European Studies Speaker Series, Fall 2002.

Speaker, “The United States and the European Union,” World View Residential Leadership Program in Global Education, UNC Chapel Hill, June 2002.

Speaker, “Globalization, Democratization and the European Union.” Workshop for college teachers on teaching the EU, Center for European Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, May 2002.

Other Professional Experience

The BBC, Czech Service: Regular Commentator, Newscasts and Roundtables: 2000-2003

European politics, European integration and American foreign policy

Office of the Czech President Václav Havel: External Foreign Policy Advisor. 1999-2001

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Munich: Intern, Analytic Department. 1993

U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, Washington D.C: Intern. 1988, 1989

Services Culturels, Ambassade de France, New York: Intern. 1988

National Park Service, Yellowstone: Interpreter and Geothermal Researcher. 1985, 1986

Interviews with the Press

For the following: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Radio, BBC World Service, BBC Czech Service, Slovensky Rozhlas, and Czech television programs.

Languages

Native English, fluent Czech and French, reading Polish and Russian, learning Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian.