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Dr. des. Vera van Hüllen
SFB 700 - Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood
Research Associate
| Address: |
Ihnestraße 22 Room 113a 14197 Berlin |
| Telephone: | +49 (0)30 838 53361 |
| Fax: | +49 (0)30 838 58540 |
| E-Mail: | vera.vanhuellen@fu-berlin.de |
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Center for European Integration CDDRL Stanford University |
Office Hours
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In the summer term, there will again be the regular lists published on the bill-board of the Center for European Integration, Ihnestraße 22.
Short biography
Vera van Hüllen studied European Studies at the University of Osnabrück (1998-2003) and at the Institut d’Ètudes Politiques de Grenoble, France (2001-2002). She graduated with a Master’s degree (Magistra Rerum Europae) in December 2003. From mid November 2004 to mid April 2005, she was a research associate at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück before she moved to Freie Universität Berlin. There, she studied and taught as research associate at the Center for European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science until mid April 2010. From January to June 2009, she was guest researcher at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University in the USA. Since mid April 2010, she is research associate at the SFB 700. In the framework of the project B2 she focuses on the governance transfer of regional organizations in the Middle East and North Africa.
In November 2010, Vera van Hüllen successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “It Takes Two to Tango: The European Union and Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean” at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin. In her thesis, she investigates the role of political liberalization, statehood, and interdependence for cooperation in the field of democracy and human rights between the European Union and seven authoritarian states in its southern neighbourhood.
Her research interest at the intersection of International Relations and Comparative Politics include
- International Democracy Promotion
- Regional integration and comparative regionalism
- European Integration, in particular the EU as an international actor, external governance, and Euro-Mediterranean relations
- Democracy and authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa
Publications
- forthcoming: Europeanization through cooperation? EU democracy promotion in Morocco and Tunisia, in: West European Politics.
- (with Tanja A. Börzel) forthcoming: Good Governance and Bad Neighbours. The End of Transformative Power Europe? KFG Working Paper.
- 2010: More than cheap talk? Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on human rights and democracy, Working Paper del Observatori de Política Exterior Europea, n. 86, Diciembre 2010, Bellaterra (Barcelona): Institut Universitari d’Estudis Europeus. (PDF download)
- 2009: Transnationalising Euro-Mediterranean Relations. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network as an Intermediary Actor, in: Schäfer, Isabel and Jean-Robert Henry (ed.): Mediterranean Policies from Above and from Below, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 390-411.
- 2009: EU democracy promotion in the Mediterranean. Cooperation against all odds?, KFG Working Paper No. 9, November 2009. (PDF download)
- (with Andreas Stahn) 2009: Comparing EU and US Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean and the Newly Independent States, in: Amichai Magen, Thomas Risse and Michael McFaul (ed.): Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law. American and European Strategies, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 118-149.
- 2008: Die 'normative Macht' der EU nach innen. Identität und Legitimität durch Europäische Außenpolitik, in: Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien, 11:3, 565-578.
- 2008: Transnationalising Euro-Mediterranean Relations. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network as an Intermediary Actor, Berlin Working Paper on European Integration Nr. 9, November 2008. (PDF download)
Book reviews
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forthcoming, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
- Urdze, Sigita (2010). Die externe Demokratieförderung der EU in den zentralasiatischen Staaten. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
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2009, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 3:2, 345-352
- Erdmann, Gero and Marianne Kneuer (ed.) (2009). Externe Faktoren der Demokratisierung. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Magen, Amichai and Leonardo Morlino (ed.) (2009). International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law. Anchoring Democracy? London, New York: Routledge.
- Reiber, Tatjana (2009). Demokratieförderung und Friedenskonsolidierung. Die Nachkriegsgesellschaften von Guatemala, El Salvador und Nicaragua. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Weiffen, Brigitte (2009). Entstehungsbedingungen von Demokratien. Interne und externe Faktoren. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Conference participation with own (or co-authored) paper
- Twelfth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Boston (MA), 03.-05.03.2011
- World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Barcelona, 19.-24.07.2010
- Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW) Kongress, Kiel, 21.-25.09.2009
- Eleventh Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Los Angeles, 23.-25.04.2009
- 4th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 17.-19.12.2008
- 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 30.08.-02.09.2007
- RAMSES² International Conference "Mediterranean Policies from Above and from Below", Berlin, 21.-24.06.2007
- Tenth Biennial International Conference European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Montréal, 17.-19.05.2007
- RAMSES² Workshop "Mediterranean Politics from Above and from Below", Rabat, 01.-04.02.2007
- 1st ECPR Graduate Conference, Essex, 07.-09.09.2006
