Selected Events
“Impact of the Euro Crisis on EU Governance and Institutions,” lecture to students in the European Studies program, Maastricht University, April 25, 2012
“A Greek Tragedy: American Attitudes toward the European Union,” Maastricht Monnet Lecture, Maastricht University, Centre for European Governance in cooperation with the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht, April 24, 2012.
“Maastricht and Beyond: Future Perspectives,” conference presentation, The Maastricht Treaty: Taking Stock After 20 Years, Maastricht University in cooperation with the Municipality of Maastricht and the Province of Limburg, February 7-8, 2012, see also “Leaders Reflect on Euro’s Origins,” in Europolitics, February 9, 2012.
“From Treaty Revision to Treaty Revision: Maastricht in Perspective,” paper presented at the workshop entitled The Treaty of Maastricht: Negotiations and Consequences in a Historical Perspective, Maastricht University, June 22-23, 2012
“The Post-Lisbon European Council Presidency,” paper presented at the “Decision-Making in the European Union Before and After Lisbon” workshop, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, November 3-4, 2011
“The Nature of Supranational Governance,” presentation at the World Affairs Council Professional Development Workshop for Educators, held in conjunction with the Delegation of the European Union in Washington, D.C., October 29, 2011
“Banks, Governments, and the Debt Crisis: The European Experience,” Foreign Policy Institute’s Great Decisions Program, Arlington, VA, October 26, 2011
“Approaching the European Union: Challenges and Changes in the Western Balkans,” Belgrade Open School, June 21, 2011.
“An Imperfect Union: Understanding European Integration,” University of Michigan, November 9, 2010.
“The European Union Studies Association at Twenty,” Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association, Los Angeles, April 2009
“Fifty Years of European Integration,” conference on the European Union, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon, December 15, 2008
“Writing European Union History,” Institute d’Études Européenees, Free University of Brussels, November 26, 2008
Commentary on “From Failure to Fall? The Emergence of the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy,” Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies European University Institute, Florence, November 14, 2008
“The Launch of the European Community,” conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the European Community, Fordham Center on European Law, Fordham University, NY, February 29, 2008
“Interests, Institutions and Individuals: A History of the European Union,” Sixth Annual Costello Lecture, Manhattan College, New York City, October 4, 2007.
“The EU at Fifty: Still an Ever Closer Union?,” EUROSIM 2007, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, April 12-15, 2007
“The European Union, the Constitutional Treaty, and Turkish Prospects for Accession,” Inaugural Erdogan Kumcu Memorial Lecture, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, March 29, 2007
“The Constitutional Impasse: Political and Institutional Challenges,” The Great Works Symposium, The European Union: Europe at the Crossroads of the 21 Century, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, January 16, 2007
“Public Administration in the EU: The Challenge of Supranational Governance,” lecture at the National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, D.C., December 5, 2006
“The Launch of the European Community, 1958-1966,” lecture at the University of Nijmegen, the The Netherlands, October 5, 2006
“Europe: Integration or Disintegration,” presentation at the “Europe Realigned” conference, Juneau, Alaska, organized by the Juneau World Affairs Council, May 5-6, 2006
“A Grand Strategy for the European Union?”, presentation at a conference on “Enlargement and The European Union,” Yale University, New Haven, April 7-8, 2006.
Briefing on the European Union for members of the U.S. Congress and congressional staff, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. (organized by the American Center for European Studies), February 28, 2006
“Higher Education Cooperation in the EU,” keynote address, conference of international educators, Washington, D.C., February 28, 2006
“Europe Stalled: Crisis, What Crisis?”, presentation at the inaugural meeting of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Working Group on “The Future of the EU and its Relations with the US,” Washington, D.C., February 27, 2006.