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Matthias Matthijs

Matthias Matthijs

Dean Acheson Associate Professor of International Political Economy

Faculty Lead, Europe and Eurasia Focus Area

About

Matthias Matthijs holds the Dean Acheson Chair at SAIS and is associate professor of international political economy. His research focuses on the politics of economic crises, the role of economic ideas in economic policymaking, and the politics of regional integration. At SAIS, he teaches courses in international relations and comparative politics, and was twice awarded the Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching, in 2011 and 2015. He is also a Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and served as the Chair of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) from 2019 to 2021.
 
Matthijs is the editor (with Mark Blyth) of The Future of the Euro, published by Oxford University Press in 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 doctoral 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 (APSA) in 2010.
 
Matthijs has authored numerous peer reviewed articles that have been published in academic journals including Perspectives on PoliticsPolitics & SocietyReview of International Political Economy, the Journal of Common Market StudiesGovernanceGovernment and Opposition, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of European IntegrationComparative European Politics, and The International SpectatorHe has also written multiple articles and essays for Foreign AffairsForeign Policythe Journal of DemocracySurvival, and Current History.
 
Among various other research and writing projects, he is currently working on a book-length manuscript that delves into the collapse of national elite consensus around European integration.
 
He previously taught at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC from 2008 to 2012, and was a visiting assistant professor of international political economy at SAIS Europe in Bologna, Italy during the spring semester of 2010 and the academic year 2016-17. 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.
 
Dr. Matthijs received his BSc in applied economics from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, and his MA and PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University.
 
Google Scholar Profile here.
 
 

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
  • French
  • German

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