TEACHING/STUDENTS

For an original artwork by doctoral candidate Mareike Kleine on the subject of Moravcsik's scholarship, click here.

During the academic year 2022-2023, he will teach Politics 551 ("Graduate Seminar: International Politics") and Politics 240/SPIA 312 ("International Relations"). During 2023-2024, he will be on leave.

For a short video from the Open University of Professor Moravcsik explaining Liberal International Relations Theory, click here.

For a transatlantic Princeton-LSE video-conference debate between Profs. Simon Hix (LSE) and Andrew Moravcsik (PU) on the question of whether there is a "democratic deficit" in the EU, click here.

For a video feature about the seminar on public affairs in the EU, please click here.

Contact Information for Graduate Students

Politics 551. International Relations Theory
Research Seminar in International Relations
Woodrow Wilson School 556c. The Politics and Foreign Policy of the European Union
Historical Study A-12. International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World
Government 90cl. Human Rights in World Politics
Government 90cv. European Integration
Government 2009. Methods of Political Analysis
Government 2180. Democracy and Accountability in the New Europe
Government 2710. International Relations: Field Seminar
Government 2755. International Political Economy

Contact Information for Graduate Students

Christopher Darnton (Princeton)

Politics 551. International Relations Theory
An introduction to international relations theory at the graduate level.

Research Seminar in International Relations
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Woodrow Wilson School 556c. The Politics and Foreign Policy of the European Union
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Historical Study A-12. International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World
Why do states wage war? Why do they cooperate? Have the answers changed historically? Are economic globalization, ecological interdependence, and global civil society eroding traditional state sovereignty? Or do nationalism, protectionism, and power politics firmly limit the spread of world order? The course begins with the Peloponnesian War, the European state system, imperialism, the spread of free trade, and the two World Wars. It continues after 1945 with the spread of democracy and human rights, trade liberalization, international law, and ecological cooperation, as well as enduring sources of conflicts like the Cold War, nuclear weapons, civil strife, and rogue states. (Undergraduate lecture course.) Click here for syllabus.

Government 90cl. Human Rights in World Politics
An examination of the history, politics, and law of international human rights protection. The seminar analyzes the emergence, expansion, and enforcement of international norms concerning national guarantees of human rights. (Undergraduate seminar.) Click here for syllabus.

Government 90cv. European Integration
An introduction to the history, politics and policy of the European Union. (Undergraduate seminar.) Click here for syllabus.

Government 2009. Methods of Political Analysis
This course explores the issues of research design vital to doctoral students planning to undertake empirical research in political science, including issues associated with conceptualization, measurement, comparison, selection of cases, and establishing causal relationships, as well as some of the deeper dilemmas of understanding a complex, multicausal world. Each week we read some articles on these issues and examples of efforts to resolve them with a view to building up good instincts for research strategy. (Graduate seminar.) Click here for syllabus.

Government 2180. Democracy and Accountability in the New Europe
Is there a “democratic deficit” in Europe? Political decisions are increasingly delegated to insulated, non-majoritarian institutions, national bureaucracies, constitutional courts, central banks, and international organizations. In what sense are administrators, judges, diplomats, and chief executives democratically accountable? What are the political consequences? The course looks to positive and normative theory, as well as empirical material drawn from European integration, Central European democratic transitions, and West European political development, with assistance from visiting senior European scholars. (Graduate seminar.) Click here for syllabus.

Government 2710. International Relations: Field Seminar
A survey of the field. Suitable for students preparing for general examinations. (Graduate field seminar.) Click here for course web site.

Government 2755. International Political Economy
A graduate-level introduction to the theoretical and empirical literature on the political economy of international trade, monetary, regulatory, investment and environmental policies. (Graduate seminar.) Click here for syllabus.