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About

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 will serve as Chair of the Executive Committee of the European Union Studies Association(EUSA) from May 2019 to May 2021.

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 in journals like Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Review of International Political Economy, Governance, Government and Opposition, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of European Integration, Comparative European Politics, 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 is currently working on a book manuscript on the collapse of elite consensus around European Integration.

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.

MANUSCRIPTS/PAPERS/RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Caging the Nation-State: Technocracy vs. Democracy in European Integration (Book Manuscript – Research in Progress).

"Hegemonic Leadership Is What States Make Of It: Reading Kindleberger in Washington and Berlin” (Revise & Resubmit).
"Mind The Gap: Southern Exit, Northern Voice, and Changing Loyalties since the Euro Crisis" (with Silvia Merler) (Revise & Resubmit)

"Muscles in Brussels: The European Union's Economic Authority in Comparative Perspective" (with Craig Parsons, Preparing for Submission).
"Growth Models and the Euro: Complementary or Incompatible?" (with Alison Johnston, Preliminary Research)
"The Euro at Twenty: Reflections," forthcoming in Yearbook 2019: Germany in European Integration (edited by Mark Gilbert et al)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Future of the Euro (co-edited with Mark Blyth), New York: Oxford University Press, Published Hardcover/Paperback 2015.

Reviews:

By Anthony Payne in International Affairs 91 (6) (2015): Read it here.
By Daniel W. Drezner in The Washington Post (2015): Read it here.
By Herman M. Schwartz in Acta Politica 51 (2016): Read it here.
By Miguel Otero-Iglesias for EUSA Review of Books (2015): Read it here.
By Josef Hien for EuVisions (2016): Read it here.
By Randall Germain for CritCom (Council for European Studies, 2016): Read it here.

Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005), London & New York: Routledge, Published Hardcover: 2011; Paperback: 2012.

Reviews:

By Barrie Dyster in The Economic and Labour Relations Review (2013): Read it here.
By Jim Tomlinson in The Economic History Review (2013): Read it here.

Articles and Book Chapters

"Rethinking Central-Bank Independence" (with Erik Jones), Journal of Democracy 30 (2), April 2019, pp. 127-141.
"Ever Tighter Union? Brexit, Grexit, and Frustrated Differentiation in the Single Market and Eurozone" (with Craig Parsons & Christina Toenshoff), Comparative European Politics 17 (2), Spring 2019, pp. 209-230.
"Of Paradigms and Power: British Economic Policy Making since Thatcher" (with Martin B. Carstensen), Governance 31 (3), July 2018, pp. 431-447.
"When Is It Rational to Learn the Wrong Lessons? Technocratic Authority, Social Learning, and Euro Fragility" (with Mark Blyth), Perspectives on Politics 16 (1), March 2018, pp. 110-126.
"Black Swans, Lame Ducks, and the Mystery of IPE's Missing Macroeconomy" (with Mark Blyth), Review of International Political Economy 24 (2), April 2017, pp. 204-231.
"Integration at What Price? The Erosion of National Democracy in the Euro Periphery," Government and Opposition 52 (2), April 2017, pp. 266-294.
"Democracy without Solidarity: Political Dysfunction in Hard Times" (with Erik Jones), Government and Opposition 52 (2), April 2017, pp. 185-210.
"Europe After Brexit: A Less Perfect Union," Foreign Affairs 96 (1), January/February 2017, pp. 85-95.
"The Euro's 'Winner-Take-All' Political Economy: Institutional Choices, Policy Drift, and Diverging Patterns of Inequality," Politics & Society 44 (3), September 2016, pp. 393-422.
"The Failure of German Leadership," in Hubert Zimmermann and Andreas Dür (eds.), Key Controversies in European Integration (2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 236-243.
"Roundtable on Ideational Turns in the Four Subdisciplines of Political Science" (with Jeffrey Checkel, Jeffrey Friedman, and Rogers Smith), Critical Review 28 (2), 2016, pp. 171-202.
"The Three Faces of German Leadership," Survival 58 (2), April/May 2016, pp. 135-154.
"Powerful Rules Governing the Euro: The Perverse Logic of German Ideas," Journal of European Public Policy 23 (3), March 2016, pp. 375-391.
"A Barbarous Relic: The Economic Consequences of the Euro," Challenge 58 (6), December 2015, pp. 477-491.
“Introduction: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Embedded Currency Areas” (with Mark Blyth), chapter 1 in Matthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth (eds), The Future of the Euro (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 1-17.
“European Integration Past, Present and Future: Moving Forward through Crisis?” (with Craig Parsons), chapter 10 Matthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth (eds), The Future of the Euro (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 210-232.
“Conclusion: The Future of the Euro – Possible Futures, Risks, and Uncertainties” (with Mark Blyth), chapter 12 in Matthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth (eds), The Future of the Euro (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 249-269.
"The Euro Crisis' Theory Effect: Northern Saints, Southern Sinners, and the Demise of the Eurobond" (with Kate McNamara), Journal of European Integration 37 (2), February 2015, pp. 229-245.
"Europe Reborn: How to Save the European Union from Irrelevance" (with R. Daniel Kelemen), Foreign Affairs 94 (1), January/February 2015, pp. 96-107.
"Britain and Europe: The End of the Affair?" Current History 113 (761), 100th Anniversary Issue, March 2014, pp. 91-97.
"Mediterranean Blues: The Crisis in Southern Europe," Journal of Democracy 25 (1), January 2014, pp. 101-115.
“The Eurozone Crisis: Growing Pains or Doomed from the Start?” Chapter 14 in Manuela Moschella and Catherine Weaver (eds.), Handbook of Global Economic Governance (Routledge, 2014), pp. 201-217.
“The Dollar Paradox: America Caught Between Managing Decline and Enjoying Exorbitant Priviliges” Chapter 3 in John Harper (ed.), A Resolute Faith in the Power of Reasonable Ideas, David Calleo Festschrift, SAIS Bologna Center, January 2014, pp. 29-47.
"David Cameron's Dangerous Game: The Folly of Flirting With an EU Exit," Foreign Affairs 92 (5), September/October 2013, pp. 10-16.
“Crying Wolf Again? Western Economic Decline after the Great Recession,” The International Spectator 41 (3), September 2012, pp. 37-52.
“Global Economy and the United States,” Essay Entry Contribution to David Coates (ed.), The Oxford Companion to American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012).
“Can Africa Leap into Global Network Trade?" (with Uma Subramanian), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, No. WPS 4112, January 2007.
“Power and Preservation in the House of Saud” (with Gregg Johnson and Greg Lehman), The Bologna Center Journal for International Affairs, Spring 2002.

Bibliographies

“Brexit, British Politics, and European Integration” (with Christina Toenshoff). In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press, February 2019. (PDF available here)

Book Reviews

Review of In The Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries (University of Michigan Press, 2018) by Zsófia Barta, in Perspectives on Politics (Summer 2019, forthcoming)
Review of Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West (W.W. Norton, 2017) by William Drozdiak, in The Washington Post (October 2017).
Review of From Convergence to Crisis: Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro (Cornell University Press, 2016) by Alison Johnston, in Perspectives on Politics (Summer 2017).
Review of Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2013) by Vivien A. Schmidt and Mark Thatcher, eds., in EUSA Review of Books (November 2015).