Schmidt in WaPo on What the Brexit Means for France
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, was recently interviewed for an article examining what Britain’s exit from the European Union could mean for France.
Schmidt was quoted in a July 18, 2016 article in The Washington Post, entitled “With Britain’s Exit from the European Union, France Sees an Opening.“
From the text of the article:
According to Vivien Schmidt, the Jean Monnet professor of European integration at Boston University, the major shift away from a French-led Europe came in the 1990s, when the European single market embraced a host of neoliberal economic polices, including the deregulation of telecommunications and, later, of electricity, both opposed by France.
“Basically, it’s no longer the French leading,” she said. “It’s a set of policies that don’t sit well with the idea of the French state being in control.”
You can read the entire article here.
Prof. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. She has published ten books, over 100 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis. Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism). You can learn more about her here.