Elliot Posner – Associate Professor of Political Science

For the 2011-2012 academic year, Professor Posner will be on leave in Paris and Brussels, where he will be affiliated with Sciences Po’s Centre d’études européennes and Bruegel, respectively. He can be reached via email. A voice message left on the number below will appear in his inbox.

Elliot Posner
Dept. of Political Science, CWRU
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7109
eap26@case.edu
Phone (216) 368-1015/Fax (216) 368-4681
Curriculum Vitae

Research
Professor Posner’s research focuses on institutional change and innovation, the sources of international regulatory power and cooperation, and the nature of markets. Much of his recent work pursues these topics in the context of political battles over the rules governing finance in the European Union, the Transatlantic arena and international bodies. His book, The Origins of Europe’s New Stock Markets (Harvard University Press, 2009), explores the causes of the EU’s emergence as a regional and global financial player and addresses classic and new questions about the origins of markets and their relationship to politics and bureaucracy. He is currently conducting research on multilateral efforts to coordinate supervision of financial activity, the EU’s role in shaping international regulations and European reactions to the financial crisis. His work (see CV above and selected publications below) has appeared or is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of European Public Policy, International Organization, the Review of International Political Economy, World Politics and edited volumes.

He is the recipient of a 2011-2012 European Union Affairs Fulbright research grant.

Teaching, Background and More
Elliot Posner teaches courses on international relations, the international political economy, finance, the European Union, Sub-Saharan Africa and international non-governmental organizations. Before earning a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, he received degrees from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University (M.A.) and Brown University (B.A.). He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana, where he taught English and math to eighth and ninth graders. As the department’s internship coordinator, he oversees the Wellman Hill Political Science Internship Grants Program.

Selected Publications and Papers:
“International Interdependence and Regulatory Power,” European Journal of International Relations, forthcoming. (Coauthored with Abraham Newman.)

"Sequence as Explanation: The International Politics of Accounting Standards," Review of International Political Economy, 17, 4 (October 2010): 639-664.

“The EU and Financial Regulation: Power without Purpose?” Journal of European Public Policy 17, 3 (April 2010): 400-15. (Coauthored with Nicolas Véron.)

“Is a European Approach to Financial Regulation Emerging from the Crisis?” in Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change, edited by Eric Helleiner, Stefano Pagliari and Hubert Zimmermann (New York: Routledge, 2010), 108-120.

"The Lamfalussy Process: Polyarchic Origins of Networked Financial Rulemaking in the EU," in EU Governance: Towards a New Architecture? edited by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 43-60.

"Making Rules for Global Finance: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation at the Turn of the Millennium,"
International Organization 63, 4 (Fall 2009): 665-99.

The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).

"Financial Transformation in the European Union," in Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty (State of the European Union, Volume Eight), edited by Kathleen McNamara and Sophie Meunier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 139-156.

"Sources of Institutional Change: The Supranational Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets," (*pdf) World Politics 58, 1 (October 2005): 1-40.

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