Sophie Meunier (born 1967 in Paris, France) is a senior research scholar in Public and International Affairs at
Princeton University
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School of Public and International Affairs(formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson School). She is the Director of Princeton'
Program in Contemporary European Politics and Societyand the Co-director of the
European Union
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Program at Princeton, which she founded with
Andrew Moravcsik. A Franco-American political scientist, she is an expert in
European integration
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, the politics of European trade and investment policy,
and the politics of
anti-Americanism. Meunier is
faculty fellowin
Yeh College at Princeton University.
Her first book, ''The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization'' (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), co-written with
Philip Gordon, won the 2002 France-Ameriques Book Award.
[Le Monde des Livres, 13 September 2002] Paul Krugman
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called it "a terrific book, especially for those of us who were wondering how France manages to thrive in the very global economy it denounces". Her second book, ''Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations'' (Princeton University Press, 2005), has been praised by
Pascal Lamy as "the first authoritative study of the trade policy of the European Union".
She has published many articles in academic journals, as well as in magazines and newspapers such as ''
Foreign Affairs
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Foreign Policy
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Le Monde
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Le Figaro
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The Huffington Post
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Meunier has been actively involved in promoting the study of the European Union in the United States. She is the vice-chair of the
European Union Studies Association (2021-2025). She is a former elected member of the executive committee of the
Council for European Studies
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History
The Council for European Studi ...
, the leading academic organization for the study of Europe, with a membership of more than 100 institutions and 1,000 individuals. She was the co-chair of the 2010 Conference Program Committee of the Council for European Studies in Montreal, April 15–17, 2010. She was also elected on the board of the European Union Studies Association (2003–2007) and was secretary of this association (2005–2007).
She received her BA in political science from Sciences Po Paris and her Ph.D. in political science from
M.I.T.
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She was named Chevalier de l'
Ordre des Palmes Academiques
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by the French government in 2011
and currently resides in
Princeton
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,
New Jersey
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.
Research contributions
Meunier's theoretical and empirical research studies the politics of globalization, notably the interactions between European integration and globalization and their impact on international institutions and domestic politics. She has analyzed both how economic globalization challenges politics in the European Union and how European countries have reacted to, adapted to, and in turn shaped globalization. Her most well-known contributions are the following:
* The development of trade and investment policy in the European Union
* France and globalization
* The politics of international regime complexity
* Failing Forward as a pattern of European integration
* The politics of hosting Chinese direct investment in Europe
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Books
*''The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization'' (with
Philip Gordon). Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
*''Le Nouveau defi francais: la France face a la mondialisation'' (avec
Philip Gordon). Editions Odile Jacob, 2002.
*''Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations''. Princeton University Press, 2005.
*''L'Union fait la force: l'Europe dans les négociations commerciales internationales''. Presses de Sciences Po, 2005.
*''Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty'' (edited with
Kathleen McNamara). Oxford University Press, 2007.
*''Europe and the Management of Globalization'' (edited with
Wade Jacoby
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). Routledge, 2010.
*''Developments in French Politics 5'' (edited with Alistair Cole and Vincent Tiberj). Palgrave, 2013.
*''The Politics of Representation in the Global Age'' (edited with Peter Hall, Wade Jacoby and Jonah Levy). Cambridge University Press, 2014.
*''Speaking with a Single Voice: The EU as an Effective Actor in Global Governance?'' (edited with Eugenia da Conceicao-Heldt). Routledge, 2014.
*''Developments in French Politics 6'' (edited with Helen Drake, Alistair Cole, and Vincent Tiberj). McMillan Red Globe Press, 2021.
Awards and honors
*Named Chevalier de l'
Ordre des Palmes Academiques
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by the French government in 2011
*Book ''The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization'' (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), co-written with
Philip Gordon, won the 2002 France-Ameriques Book Award.
References
External links
Sophie Meunier's webpage
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Living people
French emigrants to the United States
Princeton University faculty
American women political scientists
American political scientists
French political scientists
International relations scholars
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Sciences Po alumni
1967 births
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
American women academics
21st-century American women