The Federal Vision : Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and the European Union
     

Biography of Kalypso Nicolaidis, Co-Editor

Kalypso Nicolaidis is University Lecturer in international relations at the University of Oxford, a Fellow at St Antony's College where she teaches in International Relations and a member of the faculty of the World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland. Previously she was Associate Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government where she served as the faculty chair for the Socrates Kokkalis Program on Southeastern Europe. She also taught at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris. In her research, she combines long-standing interests in exploring the sources and forms of co-operation in regional and multilateral settings and the dynamics of European integration. She has published on institutional, political and economic developments in the European Union, enlargement Eastern and Central Europe, international trade, the WTO, conflict resolution and negotiation theory. She is the co-editor of The Greek Paradox: Promise vs Performance (MIT Press, 1997), translated in Greek and Turkish, and Strategic Trends in Services: An Enquiry into the World Services Economy (Harper and Row, 1989). Her upcoming book is entitled Mutual Recognition Among Nations: Global Lessons from the European Experience. Her last publication, The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the United States and the European Union is part of a broader project conducted at the Center for European Studies at Oxford on the Future of Europe and the 2004 agenda and is currently advising the Greek foreign ministry on these issues. She has long been involved in action-research on Greece's relations with the    Balkans and Turkey. 

Nicolaidis holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, a Master in International Economics and a Diplome from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.