Andrew Moravcsik

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Andrew Moravcsik
Born
Andrew Maitland Moravcsik

1957 (age 67–68)
Alma mater Stanford University
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University
Spouse Anne-Marie Slaughter
Scientific career
Fields Political science, history, public policy, international relations
Institutions Princeton University
Academic advisors Robert Keohane, Stanley Hoffmann

Andrew Maitland Moravcsik [1] (born 1957) is professor of politics and international affairs, director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and founding director of the European Union Program and the International Relations Faculty Colloquium at Princeton University. Moravcsik is known for his academic research and policy writing on European integration, international organizations and for developing the theory of liberal intergovernmentalism. [2]

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Moravcsik is also a former policy-maker who currently serves as book review editor (Europe) of Foreign Affairs magazine. He was previously non-resident senior fellow of The Brookings Institution, [3] contributing editor of Newsweek magazine and held other journalistic positions.

Academic career

Academic positions

In 1992, Moravcsik began teaching at Harvard University's Department of Government. During his 12-year tenure in the department, Moravcsik became a full professor and founded Harvard's European Union program.[ citation needed ] He left the school in 2004 to assume a post at Princeton University. [4] Since 2019 he also directs the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, a research institute. [5]

He holds a lifetime appointment as distinguished affiliated professor at the Technische Universität München (TUM), in Munich, Germany, where he is affiliated with its Hochschule für Politik [6] and he teaches annually as Non-Resident Professor at the Florence School for Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Firenze, Italy. [7]

In 2023, he was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. [8]

Academic publications

With almost 49,000 academic citations, [9] a recent study found that Moravcsik is the most cited US-based political scientist of his cohort. [10] These writings include a book, entitled The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht, three edited volumes, [11] and over 150 academic book chapters, journal articles, and reviews. The book, which the American Historical Review called "the most important work in the field" of modern European studies, [12] attempts to explain why the member states of the European Union agreed to cede sovereignty to a supranational entity. [13]

Moravcsik's "liberal intergovernmentalist" theory of European integration is widely regarded as a plausible account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union.[ citation needed ] It stresses the issue-specific functional national interests of member states and goes on to analyze the interstate bargains they strike among themselves and the rational incentive to construct institutions to render enforcement and elaboration of those bargains credible. [14] Quantitative studies of research citations in EU studies conclude that liberal intergovernmentalism currently serves as the "baseline" academic theory of European integration, that is, it is the theory that most often confirmed and taken as a baseline for further extensions or for identification of anomalies. [15] A recent restatement of liberal intergovernmentalism, published in 2018, elaborates a future research agenda. [16]

Regarding international relations theory more generally, Moravcsik adheres to "liberal" theory in the sense that he seeks to explain state behavior with reference to variation in the underlying social purposes (substantive "national preferences" or "fundamental national interests," material or ideational) that states derive from their embeddedness in an interdependent domestic and transnational civil society. [14] [17] In contrast to realist, institutionalist, and various types of "constructivist" or "non-rational" theory, liberal theory privileges and directly theorizes social interdependence and globalization as the dominant force in world politics, past and present. Liberal theory, Moravcsik maintains, is empirically insufficient to explain much of international relations yet remains analytically more fundamental than other types of international relations theory, because it sets preconditions that are scope conditions under which other theories (such as realism, institutionalism and constructivism) affect world politics. [18]

Moravcsik advocates greater transparency and replicability of textual, qualitative and historical research in international relations, political science, and the social sciences more generally. To this end, he has proposed the use of "active citation" the use of precise footnotes hyperlinked to source material contained in an appendix or on a permanent qualitative data repository. [19] He has worked with other scholars to extend this approach through the "Annotation for Transparent Inquiry" (ATI) initiative. [20] Moravcsik's book The Choice for Europe was criticized for imprecise and misleading use of historical sources. [21]

Policy career and public commentary

Policy positions

Prior to the start of his academic career, Moravcsik served in policy positions for governments on three continents. He was international trade negotiator at the US Department of Commerce, special assistant to South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hahn-Been, and press assistant at the Commission of the European Communities, as well as an editor of a Washington-based foreign policy journal. [22] He has subsequently served as a member and in leadership positions on policy commissions organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment, the Commission of the European Communities, Princeton University and other organizations.[ citation needed ]

Public commentary

In 2002, Moravcsik began writing public commentary. [23] Since 2009, he has served as book review editor (Europe) for Foreign Affairs magazine. He continues to engage in regular policy analysis and advising, currently focusing on EU–US burden-sharing, the democratic deficit in Europe, transatlantic relations, the future of the European Union, and Asian regionalism. He is known for his argument that Europe is the world's "second superpower" and for a soberly optimistic assessments of the European Union. He has also written and spoken for The Atlantic and other media outlets on the desirability of men serving as the "lead parent" for children and playing an equal or more active role in caring work. [24]

Education

Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright fellow at the universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in West Germany. In 1982 he enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, from which he received a Master of Arts degree in international relations in 1984. In 1992 he obtained an MA and PhD in political science from Harvard University.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Moravcsik spent most of his youth in Eugene, Oregon, where he graduated from Winston Churchill High School in 1975. [25] His mother, Francesca de Gogorza, is a former landscape architect and urban planner.[ citation needed ] His father, Michael Moravcsik (1928–1989), was a professor of theoretical particle physics and helped to develop the field of citation studies. [25]

Moravcsik is married to the legal academic and political scientist Anne-Marie Slaughter, with whom he has two sons. [25]

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Moravcsik, A.M. (1992). National Preference Formation and Interstate Bargaining in the European Community, 1955-1986. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2021-01-12. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
  2. ↑ Andrew Moravcsik's Homepage Archived 2016-04-13 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2009-06-28
  3. ↑ Brookings Institution Profile Archived 2010-02-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2009-06-28
  4. ↑ "About the Program | European Union Program at Princeton".
  5. ↑ "Home | Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination". lisd.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  6. ↑ "Moravcsik Named Distinguished Affiliated Professor at Technical University of Munich".
  7. ↑ "Andrew Maitland Moravcsik".
  8. ↑ "Andrew Moravcsik".
  9. ↑ "Andrew Moravcsik". Google Scholar. Archived from the original on 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2020-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ "Andrew Moravcsik's Home Page". princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-09-12. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
  12. ↑ Hitchcock, William I.; Moravcsik, Andrew (December 1999). "Review: The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht by Andrew Moravcsik" . The American Historical Review . 104 (5): 1742–43. doi:10.2307/2649481. JSTOR   2649481.
  13. ↑ Moravcsik, Andrew (11 October 2013). The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-134-21534-8.
  14. 1 2 "Liberal Intergovernmentalism Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine ," in Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez, eds. European Integration Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) Retrieved on 2009-06-28
  15. ↑ Naurin, Daniel (March 14, 2018). "Liberal Intergovernmentalism in the Councils of the EU: A Baseline Theory?". JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 56 (7): 1526–1543. doi:10.1111/jcms.12786. hdl: 10852/67290 . S2CID   158553715. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2021– via Wiley Online Library.
  16. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2020-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. ↑ "Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine " International Organization (Autumn 1997) Retrieved on 2009-06-28
  18. ↑ International Relations – Liberal Theory (2/7). Open University. 3 October 2014 – via YouTube.
  19. ↑ "Active Citation: A Precondition for Replicable Qualitative Research Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University" (PDF). 22 December 2009. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
  20. ↑ Repository, Qualitative Data (February 10, 2017). "Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) at a Glance". QDR. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  21. ↑ Lieshout, Robert H.; Segers, Mathieu L. L.; Vleuten, Anna M. van der (2004). "De Gaulle, Moravcsik, and The Choice for Europe: Soft Sources, Weak Evidence". Journal of Cold War Studies. 6 (4): 89–139. doi:10.1162/1520397042350900. hdl: 2066/61100 . ISSN   1520-3972. S2CID   57572268.
  22. ↑ Andrew Moravcsik's Biography Archived 2016-03-11 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2009-06-28
  23. ↑ "Selected Public Affairs Commentary". Andrew Moravcsik's Home Page. Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
  24. ↑ Moravcsik, Andrew (September 10, 2015). "Why I Put My Wife's Career First". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  25. 1 2 3 Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/library/faculty_profile.pdf
  26. ↑ Colgan, Jeff D. (September 2016). "Where Is International Relations Going? Evidence from Graduate Training" . International Studies Quarterly. 60 (3): 486–498. doi:10.1093/isq/sqv017.
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