Andrew Moravcsik

Andrew Moravcsik
Andrew Moravcsik in 2011
Born	Andrew Maitland Moravcsik 1957
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University Johns Hopkins University Stanford University
Spouse	Anne-Marie Slaughter
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	Princeton University
Academic advisors	Robert Keohane

Andrew Maitland Moravcsik (born 1957) is a Professor of Politics and director of the European Union Program at Princeton University. He is known for his research on European integration, international organizations, human rights, qualitative/historical methods, and American and European foreign policy, for developing the theory of liberal intergovernmentalism, and for his work on liberal theories of international relations. He is a former policy-maker who currently serves as Nonresident Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution, and Book Review Editor (Europe) of Foreign Affairs magazine. He was previously Contributing Editor of Newsweek Magazine. He writes popular and scholarly work on classical music, especially opera.

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. He left the school in 2004 to assume a post at Princeton University, where he again founded an EU program. He has also been affiliated with the University of Chicago, Columbia University and New York University, as well as various French, British, German and Chinese research institutes.

In 2011, Moravcsik was awarded the Stanley Kelley Teaching Prize by the Princeton University. He teaches the introductory undergraduate course in international relations, as well as masters and graduate level seminars. In addition to being the Founding Director of the European Union Program, he is the Founding Chair of the International Relations Colloquium and serves on the executive committee of various centers and programs.

Moravcsik's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Columbia University, Harvard University, German Marshall Fund, International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), Centre d'Etudes et Relations Internationales (Paris), and many other organizations. During the academic year 2011-2012, he was visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

Academic Publications

Moravcsik has published one book, titled The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht, three edited volumes, and over 125 scholarly 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, attempts to explain why the member states of the European Union agreed to cede sovereignty to a supranational entity.

According to Google Scholar, The Choice for Europe has been cited at least 3292 times as of April 2013.

At least five journal articles authored by Moravcsik have been cited more than 500 times:

• Moravcsik, Andrew (1993). "Preferences and power in the European Community: A liberal intergovernmentalist approach". Journal of Common Market Studies. 31 (4): 473–524. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.1993.tb00477.x. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help) (cited 2081 times) [Named one of the "5 best articles of the decade" by JCMS]
• Moravcsik, Andrew (1997). "Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics". International Organization. 51 (4): 513–53. doi:10.1162/002081897550447. ISSN 0020-8183. JSTOR 2703498. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help) (cited 1579 times)
• Moravcsik, Andrew (1991). "Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community". International Organization. 45 (1): 19–56. doi:10.1017/S0020818300001387. ISSN 0020-8183. JSTOR 2706695. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help) (cited 1267 times)
• Moravcsik, Andrew (2002). "In Defense of the Democratic Deficit: Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union" (PDF). Journal of Common Market Studies. 40 (4): 603–24. doi:10.1111/1468-5965.00390. Retrieved 2009-06-28. (cited 875 times)
• Moravcsik, Andrew (2003). "The origins of human rights regimes: Democratic delegation in postwar Europe". International Organization. 54 (2): 217–52. doi:10.1162/002081800551163. JSTOR 2601297. (cited 541 times)

Moravcsik’s “liberal intergovernmentalist” theory of European integration is regarded as a plausible account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union. 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.

As regards international relations theory more generally, Moravcsik is a “liberal”, in that he seeks to explain state behavior with reference to variation in the underlying purposes (“preferences” or “fundamental national interests”) that states derive from their embeddedness in domestic and transnational civil society. Liberal theory, in contrast to realist, institutionalist, and “constructivist” theory, privileges and directly theorizes social interdependence and globalization as the dominant force in world politics, past and present. Liberal theory, Moravcsik maintains, is not empirically sufficient to explain all of international relations, but it is analytically more fundamental than other types of international relations theory.

Moravcsik advocates greater transparency and replicability of textual, qualitative and historical research in international relations and political science. 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. He is currently working with other scholars to realize this proposal.

Policy Career

Policy Positions

Prior to the start of his academic career, Moravcsik served as an international trade negotiator at the US Department of Commerce, a special assistant to South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hahn-Been, press assistant at the Commission of the European Communities, and the editor of a foreign policy journal. 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.

Policy Publications

Since 2002, he has written over one hundred pieces of public commentary. These include dozens of articles and commentaries including cover stories in Newsweek, Foreign Affairs and Prospect. ( ). He has also written for the Financial Times, New York Times, and many other publications. He has lectured about the European Union at The Pentagon, was a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation, and has been quoted in multiple news sources, including Deutsche Welle, International Herald Tribune, and USA Today. He is 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. During the academic year 2007-2008 he was a fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.

Musicological Career

Moravcsik began publishing music criticism while an undergraduate at Stanford University. Over the past decade, he has published over 30 reviews and articles on opera in the Financial Times, Opera, Opera News, Newsweek and elsewhere. He also conducts scholarly research on opera performance and history. He has written on the staging of Wagner operas and is currently directing a scholarly research project at Princeton University seeking to measure and explain the possible recent decline in quality of spinto and dramatic opera singing, particularly in heavier Verdi and Wagner roles.

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's 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 a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Personal

Moravcsik is married to the political scientist, international lawyer, university administrator and policy-maker Anne-Marie Slaughter, with whom he has two sons, Michael Edward (16) and Alexander (14). As a young child, Moravcsik lived in New York, California, Pakistan and Massachusetts. From age 10 to 18, he lived in Eugene, Oregon. His father, Michael Moravcsik, was a Hungarian immigrant to the United States. His mother, Francesca de Gogorza, comes from a New England family of Basque, Dutch, German, Scottish and English ancestry, and now lives in South Burlington, Vermont. He has one sister, Julia, who lives in Chicago, Illinois.

See also

• List of political scientists

External links

• Andrew Moravcsik's faculty page
• European Union Program at Princeton University