Princeton
University

 Conference

 The State of the European Union

 Princeton University

 September 16, 2005

 Organized by Sophie Meunier and Kathleen McNamara

Sponsored by the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the EU Program at Princeton, the Princeton Law and Public Affairs Program (LAPA), and the Lichtenstein Institute of Self-Determination (LISD)

The conference will take place in Wallace 300

8:30-9:00am: Breakfast

9:00-9:15am

• European Integration and Institutions in Historical Perspective

Sophie Meunier (Princeton University) and Kathleen McNamara (Georgetown University)

9:15-10:30am

• The European Constitutional Compromise

Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University)

Discussant: Jan-Werner Mueller

• What Makes Informal Governance Possible?

Dorothee Heisenberg (Johns Hopkins)

Discussant: Andrew Moravcsik

• The Durability of EU Federalism

Daniel Kelemen (Oxford University)--not coming

10:30-10:45am: Coffee Break

10:45am-12pm

• Historical Institutionalism and the EU's Eastward Enlargement

Milada Vachudova (UNC Chapel Hill)

Discussant: Joshua Tucker (Princeton University)

• Economic and Monetary Union

Amy Verdun (University of Victoria)

Discussant: Harold James (Princeton University)

• The Origins of the EU's New Financial System

Elliot Posner (George Washington University)

Discussant: Harold James (Princeton University)

• The Firm and European Integration: The Long History of the European Company Statute

Orfeo Fioretos (Temple University)

Discussant: Harold James (Princeton University)

12-1:30pm: Lunch (Wallace 300)

1:30-2:45 pm

• Social Policy

  Ailish Johnson (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada)

  Discussant: Mark Pollack (Temple University)

• The Politics of Competition in the European Union: The First Fifty Years

  Tim Buthe (Duke University)

  Discussant: Mark Pollack (Temple University)

• Protecting Privacy in Europe: Transgovernmental Policy Entrepreneurs and Administrative Feedbacks

Abraham Newman (Georgetown University)

Discussant: Mark Pollack (Temple University)

2:45-3:00pm: Coffee Break

3:00-4:15 pm

• The Theory and Reality of the European Coal and Steel Community

  Karen Alter (Northwestern University)

  Discussant: Kim Lane Scheppele

• The Constitutionalization of the European Union: Explaining the Parliamentarization and Institutionalization of Human Rights

Berthold Rittberger (Kaiserslautern University of Technology) and Frank Schimmelfennig (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Discussant: Kim Lane Scheppele

• The Evolution of European Union Citizenship

Willem Maas (New York University)

Discussant: Jan-Werner Mueller

4:15-5:00pm

• From EU Model to Policy? The External Promotion of Regional Integration

Mary Farrell (CERI)

Discussant: Christina Davis

• Trade and Transatlantic Relations: New Dogs and Old Tricks

John Peterson (University of Edinburgh) and Alasdair Young (University of Glasgow) --not coming

• Understanding the European Union as a Global Political Actor: Theory, Practice and Impact

Roy Ginsberg (Skidmore College) and Michael E. Smith (Georgia State University)

Discussant: Robert Keohane (Princeton University)

5:00-5:15pm

• Conclusion

6:00pm: Reception for conference participants at The Palmer House

7:00pm: Dinner for conference participants at The Palmer House