Schmidt Speaks at Brandeis on Germany and the EU
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke as part of an October 7, 2018 panel as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the The Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University.
Schmidt spoke as part of a panel entitled “Germany’s Role in the European Union and the Transatlantic Relationship: 1998 vs. 2018 and Beyond” Schmidt was joined on the panel by Can Erbil of Boston College, George Ross of the University of Montreal and Brandeis University, Nils Ringe of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The discussion was moderated by Lucy Goodhart of Brandeis University.
The panel explored how Germany’s role in Europe shifted between 1998 and 2018, what it means, what effects Brexit and right-wing populism have, and how the EU currently deals with these challenges and what will likely happen in the coming years.
Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. In 2018, she was appointed as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor — France’s highest honor. She has published a dozen books, over 200 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis. Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism). She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for a US-EU comparative study of the ‘rhetoric of discontent.’