Princeton University

Specialization: Political theory; history of modern political thought; European politics and society

Jan-Werner Mueller's research interests include the history of modern political thought, liberalism and its critics, nationalism, and the normative dimensions of European integration.

He is the author of A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale University Press, 2003; German, French, Japanese, Greek, and Chinese translations) and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (Yale University Press, 2000). In addition, he has edited German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave, 2003) and Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (Cambridge UP, 2002). His book Constitutional Patriotism was published by Princeton UP in 2007 (German, Chinese, and Serbian translations forthcoming).

He has been a fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, the Remarque Institute, NYU, and the European University Institute, Florence; he has also taught as a visiting professor at the EHESS, Paris, and Sciences Po, Paris. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

At Princeton Jan-Werner Mueller directs the Program in the History of Political Thought at the University Centre for Human Values.

D.Phil., Oxford University

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