”From (US) financial crisis to Eurocrisis: Why were American houses connected to Europe’s internal imbalances?” (Lecture)

Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia) is a geographically oriented economic historian who studies the constitution of and interaction of state and market power. He has worked on the development of the global economy since 1500; marketization of the welfare state in the 1980s and 1990s; and the global causes and consequences of the American housing bubble.

Lecture by Prof. A. Maurits van der Veen, College of William & Mary: ”National Visions of European Integration: How EU Citizens in Different Countries Think about the EU”

Friday, October 4, 2013 | 12 – 1:30 pm | UNC-Chapel Hill, FedEx Global Education Center 4003

Maurits van der Veen (College of William & Mary) is a political scientist whose research examines the various ways policy-makers think about (“frame”) foreign policy issues, and the impact that different frames, in turn, have on actual policy choices. He has applied this approach to the study of foreign aid policy in Western Europe and the United States, the politics of European integration and EU enlargement, and the terminology used to describe massive human rights violations (what happens if you refuse to call a genocide a genocide?). He also develops agent-based computational models to analyze the impact of social networks on the spread of foreign policy frames, and of ideas more generally.