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Teaching and Research Related to European Integration

Professor Alberta Sbragia

Jean Monnet Professor ad personam;
Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair;
Director, European Union Center of Excellence,
European Studies Center
UCIS Research Professor of Political Science.

Professor Alberta Sbragia received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974 and wrote her dissertation as a Fulbright Scholar on Italian politics and public policy. Her teaching and publications have focused on comparing U.S. and European (national and European Union) public policy with particular attention to public finance (public debt in particular), the evolution of both European and American institutions and systems of governance, the European Union's role in global environmental politics, and transatlantic economic relations. Her current work examines the impact of the European Union as a customs union and a unitary negotiator in the multilateral trading system on the organization of the global economy and the emergence of economic regionalism in various parts of the world. She is particularly interested in transatlantic economic relations understood as incorporating both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

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Research Aids

Archive of European Integration
Library Research Advisor
University Library System
EUCE's Policy/Working Papers Series
Eurostat, CORDIS, News and General Links by Country

COURSES

PS 2310, "Politics of the European Union" (Fall 07) T 9-11 AM, 4801 Posvar Hall

Course Syllabus

This course introduces students to the twin processes of economic and political integration within the European Community. The course requires a commitment to extensive reading, thoughtful class discussion, and summaries of readings which are presented—in both written and oral form--to fellow classmates as well as a major research paper. The paper should be roughly 10,000 words in length; GSPIA MA students may choose to write a policy paper. The topic of both the research paper and the policy paper must be cleared with me, and the research paper should include the use of primary documents.

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PS 1317, "Politics of the European Union" (Spring 07) T H, 8:00A-9:15A, LAWRN 104

Course Syllabus

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Comparative politics
European Union Political
Economy Global and EU environmental politics
Transatlantic relations

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS/INTERESTS:

Ongoing work related to the European Union focuses on 1) the impact of the EU on the organization of the international economy. More specifically, it examines how the creation of  the EEC as a customs union shaped the subsequent emergence of regionalism, NAFTA, MERCOSUR,  ASEAN(AFTA), and APEC in particular 2) analyzing the EU in comparative terms, with particular reference to the literature on American federalism, policymaking, state formation and development.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

PRESENTATIONS

Keynote Address delivered at the European Community Studies Association Canada (ECSA-C) 2004 Biennial Conference: “A Constitution for Europe? Governance and Policy Making in the European Union”, 27-29 May 2004, Gouverneur Hotel-Place Dupuis, Montreal, Canada, by Alberta Sbragia.

The Future of Federalism in the European Union*

BOOKS

Under Contract: Comparative Regionalism in an Age of Globalization (tentative title), CQ Press.

Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.  Nominated as one of the best books of 1996 APSA's Urban Politics Section 1996 Best Book Committee.  Sections reprinted in Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr. (ed.) American Intergovernmental Relations: Foundations, Perspectives, and Issues, third edition, Washington, DC:  CQ Press, 2000, pp. 217-228.

CHAPTERS

Euro-Politics: Politics and Policymaking in the "New" European Community, edited book, Washington, DC:  The Brookings Institution, 1992.
Two chapters therein:

"Introduction," pp. 1-22.
"Thinking about the European Future:  The Uses of Comparison," pp. 257-291.

The Municipal Money Chase: The Politics of Local Government Finance, edited book. Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1983.
Two chapters therein:

"The 1970s:  A Decade of Change in Local Government Finance," pp. 9-35.
"Politics, Local Government, and the Municipal Bond Market," pp. 67-111.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Conference Group on Italian Politics Newsletter, British Politics Group Newsletter, Journal of Public Policy, American Political Science Review, Annals.

ARTICLES

“Multi-Level Governance and Comparative Regionalism,” in Handbook on Multi-Level Governance, edited by Michael Zurn, Sonja Walti, and Henrik Enderlein. Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2008,
                       
“European Union and NAFTA,” in Mario Telo, (ed.). European Union and New Regionalism: Regional actors and global governance in a post-hegemonic era. Aldershot: Ashgate, Second Edition, forthcoming, 2007; first edition published in 2001, pp. 97-109

“Economic and Related Policies,” (co-authored with Francesco Stolfi). The EU: How Does It Work. Edited by Alexander Stubb and Elizabeth Bomberg. Second Edition. Oxford University Press, forthcoming

“Preface,” in Sergio Fabbrini and Simona Piattoni (eds.) Italy in the EU: Pygmy or Giant? Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming.

“The Future of Federalism in the European Union,” in Nanette Neuwahl and Stefan Haack (eds), Unresolved Issues of the Constitution for Europe: Rethinking the Crisis.  Montreal: Les Éditions Thémis, 2007.

“The EU In Comparative Perspective: The US as Referent?” EUSA Review, Volume 20, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp. 7-9.

“An American Perspective on the EU’s Constitutional Treaty,” POLITICS. Vol. 27, Number 1, 2007, pp.2-7.

“American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations,” in R.A.W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder and Bert A. Rockman et al. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 239-260.

“The United States and the European Union: Overcoming the Challenge of Comparing two ‘Sui Generis’ Systems,” in Anand Menon and Martin Schain (eds.) Comparative Federalism: The United States and the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 15-34.

“Forward” in Attilio Stajano, Research, Quality, Competitiveness: European Union Technology Policy for the Information Society, Springer, 2006, pp. xiii-xv.

“Introduction – The EU and Its “Constitution”: Public Opinion, Political Elites, and Their International Context.” PS: Political Science and Politics. Vol. 39, Number 2, April 2006, pp. 237-241.

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Other Faculty and Professional Positions

Presenter, Panel on “EU Constitution.” Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) conference on The EU Constitution: Where Are We Now? At Florida International University, Miami, Florida on April 7-8, 2006.

Participant, “Regional Integration Conference,” Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies, November 17-19, 2005.

Presentation on Pittsburgh’s development strategies to benchmarking group from Turin sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, Pittsburgh, October 26, 2005

Member of the University of Pittsburgh selection committee for the 2006 Undergraduate Fulbright Scholarships

Member of the University of Pittsburgh Special Committee for Honors Convocations and Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients, October 1, 2005 – August 31, 2009

Chair of panel on “New Directions in Europeanization Research” Conference of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 2005

Participant, “Seminar on The European Union for Ambassador-designate C. Boyden Gray” Washington, D.C., August 30, 2005

International member in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for the UK Education funding bodies

Former Chair, European Community Studies Association (ECSA).

Member, Permanent Research Committee on European Unification, International Political Science Association (IPSA)

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