Matthias Matthijs

Expertise

Regions

• Europe
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• United Kingdom

Topics

• Comparative Politics
• Global Financial Crises
• Globalization
• European Union and Transatlantic Relations
• International Organizations
• International Political Economy

Languages

• Dutch
• English
• French
• German

Links

• Foreign Affairs Page
• Foreign Policy Page
• The Monkey Cage
• Google Scholar
• Duck of Minerva
• Project Syndicate
• Vox - Research Based Policy Analysis
• Bruegel
• Euro Intelligence
• Crooked Timber
• TripleCrisis
• 3 Quarks Daily
• Current History

Background and Education

Matthias Matthijs is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy. He teaches graduate courses in International Relations, Comparative Politics and International Economics. His research focuses on the politics of economic crises, the role of economic ideas in economic policymaking, the politics of inequality, the limits of regional integration, and the erosion of democratic legitimacy in the European Union. He is the recipient of a 2015 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award in recognition of his work as a promising early-career investigator. At Johns Hopkins SAIS, he was awarded the Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2011 and 2015. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA).
 
He is editor (with Mark Blyth) of the book The Future of the Euro published by Oxford University Press in April 2015, and author of Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005), published by Routledge in 2011. The latter is based on his PhD dissertation, which received the Samuel H. Beer Prize for Best Dissertation in British Politics by a North American scholar, awarded by the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association in 2010. Matthijs is also the author of numerous peer reviewed articles published or forthcoming in journals like Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Review of International Political Economy, Governance_1468-0491), Government and Opposition, the _Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of European Integration, and The International Spectator. He has also written multiple articles and essays for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy,  Survival, and Current History.

He previously taught at American University''s School of International Service (from 2008 to 2012) in Washington, DC, and was a visiting assistant professor at SAIS Europe in Bologna (spring 2010). He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank’s Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS) from 2005 to 2007 and for the Economist Intelligence Unit from 2009 to 2011. He is a frequent commentator on international affairs in US and international media.

Google Scholar Profile here.

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