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Michael Baun

Marguerite Langdale Pizer Chair of International Relations, Professor

  • Ph.D. Foreign Affairs
    University of Virginia
  • M.A. Political Science
    University of Georgia
  • B.A. Political Science
    University of Georgia

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor, Marguerite Langdale Pizer Chair in International Relations, Department of Political Science, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ, 2001-present
  • Associate Professor, Pizer Chair in International Relations, Department of Political Science, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ, 1996-2001
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University, 1989-1996
  • Lecturer, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1988-1989

 

Statement of teaching and research interests:

Dr. Baun’s research and teaching interests focuses on US-Europe Relations, European Politics, European Union, Germany and Central Europe, Comparative Politics, International Politics, and International Political Economy.

 

Most recent publications or scholarly output:

Books

  •  Cohesion Policy in the European Union, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (co-authored with Dan Marek).
  • The New Member States and the European Union: Foreign Policy and Europeanization, London: Routledge, 2013 (co-edited with Dan Marek).
  • The Czech Republic and the European Union, London: Routledge, 2010 (co-authored with Dan Marek).
  • EU Cohesion Policy after Enlargement, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (co-edited with Dan Marek).
  • Governing Europe’s Neighbourhood: Partners or Periphery? Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 (co-edited with Katja Weber and Michael E. Smith).
  • A Wider Europe: The Process and Politics of European Union Enlargement, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
  • An Imperfect Union: The Maastricht Treaty and the New Politics of European Integration, Boulder, Westview Press, 1996.
  • Political Culture and Constitutionalism: A Comparative Approach, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1995 (co-edited with Daniel P. Franklin),

Journal articles

  • “And all for one? The Western response to Russian hybrid actions: Lessons from the Vrbětice case,” European Review of International Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2025), pp. 1-33 (co-authors Michael Baun and Markéta Žídková).
  •  “Making Europe Defend Again: The Relaunch of European Defense Cooperation from a Neoclassical Realist Perspective,” Czech Journal of International Relations, Vol. 54, No. 4 (2019), pp. 27-46 (co-author Dan Marek).
  •  “The Limits of Regionalization: The Intergovernmental Struggle over EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic," East European Politics & Societies and Cultures, Vol 31, No. 4 (2017), pp. 863-84 (co-author Dan Marek).

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