Schmidt Discusses Latest Book at New Library Named in Her Honor
Vivien Ann Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor Emerita of International Relations, and founding director of Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe, is bringing her latest book, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2026), to academic audiences across North America through a…
Vivien Schmidt on Understanding Power Through Ideas and Discourse
In her newest publication, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective, Professor Vivien Ann Schmidt brings decades of influential scholarship on ideas and discourse into a single, ambitious volume that reframes how political scientists and social scientists understand power, legitimacy, and change. Drawing on work begun in the late…