VU University Amsterdam

Department Member, Political Science

About

I am a  Reader in International Relations at the VU University Amsterdam. I received my PhD. in the social and political sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in 1999, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne before joining the Department of Political Science at the VU University in 2000.

My research interests are within International Political Economy and International Relations. Within these I am interested in a broad array of sub-fields, in particular IR theoy, geopolitics, foreign policy analysis, international historical sociology and  European integration studies. Whereas my research the past focused in particular on the political economy of European governance and socio-economic regulation within a global and transnational context, more recently my research agenda has come to include the relationship between geopolitics and global capitalism, with an empirical focus on the evolution of US grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.

I was a co-founder and programme co-coordinator of the Amsterdam Centre for Corporate Governance Regulation (ARCCGOR) and now of its follow-up, the Amsterdam Research Centre on International Political Economy (ARCIPE).

My publications include Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration (Routledge, 2002); Transational historical materialism: the Amsterdam International Political Economy Project (2004, editor); The Transnational Politics of Corporate Goverannce Regulation (Routledge, 2007, co-editor); Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon (Palgrave, 2009, co-editor), and (with Nana de Graaff, forthcoming) 'Variations of US post-Cold War Imperialism: Anatomy of a Failed Hegemonic Project and the Future of US Geopolitics', Critical Sociology.

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