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Contact Information & Background:
Professor of Government
Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr. Chair in Government
Model EU Advisor
Director, International Affairs/Environmental Studies Global Grant Project
Ladd 314, Phone: 580-5245
E-Mail: rginsber@skidmore.edu
Ph.D & M.A. received from The George Washington University
B.A. received from Bradley University
Published Works:
Most recent Publication:
Demystifying the European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration
(Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield), 2007
Books
Ten Years of European Foreign Policy: Baptism, Confirmation, Validation (Berlin: Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2002)
The European Union in International Politics: Baptism by Fire (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield), 2001
The United States and the European Union in the 1990s: Partners in Transition with Kevin Featherstone (New York: St. Martin's Press), 1996
The European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: Central Issue and Key Players (Carlisle: Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College), 1995
European Union-United States Foreign Policy Cooperation in the 1990s: The Elements of Partnership with Thomas Frellesen (Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies), 1994
The United States and the European Community in the 1990s: Partners in Transition with Kevin Featherstone (London: Macmillan Press, Ltd.),1993
Foreign Policy Actions of the European Community: The Politics of Scale (Boulder: Lynne Rienner), 1989
Recent Book Chapters and Articles
“European Foreign Policy and the United States,” Dumoulin, Michel and Duchene, Genevieve, eds., L’Union europeene et les Etats-Unis--Actes de la VIII Chaire Glaverbel d’etudes europeenes 2002-2003 (Brussels: Peter Lang, pp. 181-215), 2004
“Together Apart: ESDP, CFSP, and a New Transatlantic Compact,” in Andreas Maurer et al., New Stimulus or Integration Backlash?: EU Enlargement and Transatlantic Relations (Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2004)
Review of Michael E. Smith, Europe’s Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) in Perspectives on Politics
“European Union-United States Relations in the Bush Administration,” European Union-
United States Relations (Brussels: European Commission), 2003
“European Security and Defense Policy: The State of Play,” EUSA Review, Spring, vol.
16, no. 1, pp. 1-4
“Conceptualizing the European Union as an International Actor: Narrowing the Theoretical Capability-Expectations Gap,” Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 73, pp. 429-454, 1999
“The Impact of Enlargement on the Role of the European Union in the World,” in Glenda
Rosenthal, ed., The Expanding European Union (Boulder: Lynne Rienner), 1996-1998
“European Foreign Policy: The Politics of Procedure,” in Martin Holland, ed., Common Foreign and Security Policy: Record and Reform (London: Pinter)
“The European Union,” in Bruce Jentleson, ed., Encyclopedia of United States Foreign
Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
“Germany: Into the Stream of Democracy,” in Mary Ellen Fischer, ed., Establishing Democracies (Boulder: Westview)
Selective Grants Received
2005-2007 Co-Project Director, Title VI International Studies Education Grant, United States
Department of Education ($173,000)
2003 Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Grant, Skidmore College ($7,000)
1999-2001 Project Director, Title VI International Studies Education Grant, United States Department of Education ($150,000)
1996-1998 Project Director, Title VI International Studies Education Grant, United States Department of Education ($143,000)
1993-1994 Fulbright Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels ($25,000)
1990-1993 Co-Project Director, Project in Support of the Development of the European Community Studies Association, Ford Foundation ($200,000)
1981-1982 Research Fellow in European Integration, European Commission, Brussels ($5,000)
Professional Service
2003-2005 Lecturer: Jagiellonian University and Institute for Strategic Studies (Krakow) and National School of Public Administration and American Embassy (Warsew); Grants Reader, U.S. Department of Education and Grants Evaluator, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, Brussels; Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Studies, Journal of European Integration; Lecturer: Syracuse University, Siena College, Hamilton College, European Commission, Heinrich Boll Foundation (Berlin), Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin), U.S. Embassies (Athens, Nicosia), U.S. Consulate (Thessaloniki), Institute for Democracy and Institute for Balkan Studies (Thessaloniki), Greek Association of American University Alumni (Athens), Intercollege Research Center and Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce (Nicosia), Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin)
2000-2002 Lecturer: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Institute for Policy Research, German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin), Center for Applied Policy Research (Munich), German-American Foundation (Stuttgart, Heidelberg), U.S Embassy (Prague), University of Economics and Charles University (Prague); Lecturer: University of Geneva, Free University of Brussels, Bradley University; Reviewer: Oxford University Press, Journal of Common Market Studies, Danish Council for Social Science Research, Canadian Social Science Research Council
1993-1999 Exam Writer, U.S. Department of Defense; Reader, U.S. Department of Education, FIPSE, Title VI; Reviewer, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration; Member, Study Groups on Transatlantic Relations at the University of Maryland, Institut fur Europaische Politik, and Carnegie Endowment
1990-1992 Chair, European Community Studies Association
1988-1994 Member, Executive Committee, European Community Studies Association
Consultancies
2001-2005 Morehead State University, College of New Jersey, Siena College, University System of Georgia, Adelphi University, Alverno College, Syracuse University, Drury University, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of State, U. S. Consulate (Krakow), U.S. Embassy (Warsaw), European Commission, Fund for American Studies, Heinrich Boll Foundation, The German-American Academic Exchange Service, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
1989-2000 Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State, Committee of Policy Planners of the Council of the European Union, U.S. Information Service, European Commission; U.S. Department of State, U.S. Information Service, Central Intelligence Agency, National Intelligence Council, East-West Forum, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (State Department), The Fund for American Studies, and the European Commission. Testimony Submitted to the Foreign Affairs Committee and to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives
Recent Media Coverage
2001-2005 WAMC Albany public radio; Le Soir (Brussels); Greek, Greek Cypriot, and Turkish Cypriot broadcast and print media; Wisconsin Public Radio; Czech Television; Polishprint media
