Ulrich Krotz
Assistant Professor of Political Science:
Political Science
Phone: +1 401 863 6479
Ulrich_Krotz@brown.edu
Krotz's research interests include international relations theory; international relations in Europe; North Atlantic politics and transatlantic relations; security studies; comparative foreign policy; research design and qualitative methods; the comparative politics of Europe, France, and Germany; and Franco-German relations.
Biography
Ulrich Krotz, Assistant Professor of Political Science. A native of Heidelberg, Germany, Krotz received an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from Cornell University. He was a James Bryant Conant Fellow at Harvard University, a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute, and was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship from the Commission of the European Union. Before coming to Brown, he taught in the International Relations program at the University of Oxford. His research and teaching interests include international relations theory; North Atlantic politics and transatlantic relations; international relations in Europe; comparative foreign policy; research design and qualitative methods; the comparative politics of Europe, France, and Germany; and Franco-German relations. He has several research papers and two book manuscript forthcoming, under review, or in preparations in these areas of inquiry.
Interests
Krotz is working on two different book manuscripts, a co-edited and partially co-authored volume, and several research papers. His first book manuscript, Interaction and Arms: Institutionalized Relations and Security Policies in France and Germany (tentative title) argues that Franco-German relations affect the formation of French and German national interests and foreign policies. It develops a model of the process by which national interests and foreign policies take shape. From this model, it derives hypotheses regarding the conditions and contingencies with which the institutionalized relations between states exert causal impact on the states involved. The manuscript then probes these propositions in 12 cases studies covering Franco-German relations in security, defense, and armament. Its empirical investigations stretch from the mid-1970s to the early new century. Indebted to sociological and historical institutionalist theories, this study integrates external and internal sources of the origins of interests and policies into one perspective and offers a comprehensive analysis of the effects of the institutionalization of interstate relations in the center of Europe.
His second book project, Special Relations in International Politics, investigates the phenomenon of "special" inter-state relationships in international affairs. The manuscript develops the conceptual tools to capture the substance of special relations and to investigate their effects. Thereby it distinguishes among different types of special relationships between states and finds that these relations have their own logic. In order to comprehend special relations' causal effects, however, it is necessary to connect their inherent logics to various factors from domestic politics.
Furthermore, Krotz has worked on the design of an additional research project, "Bilateralism between Unilateralism and Multilateralism: Germany and the United States in Europe and the North Atlantic World" (in collaboration with Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University). This project seeks to deepen our understanding of bilateralism in world politics – its nature and variety, and its conflicts and compatibilities with different multilateral and unilateral institutional contexts.
In addition to these book projects, Krotz is in the process of revising or completing several papers in the areas of his research interests.
Awards
January 2005 - Marie Curie Fellowship of the Commission of the European Union
2003-04 – Research fellowship, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, England
June 2003 – Appointment as a member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Berlin, Germany
September 2002 - June 2003 – Jean Monnet Fellowship, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy
September 2001 - August 2002 – James Bryant Conant Fellowship, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
January 2000 - May 2001 – Carpenter Chair Fellowship, Center for International Studies, Cornell University
1998-99 – Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Mellon Foundation and Department of Government, Cornell University
1998 – Language Fellowship for Work on Franco-German Affairs, Franco-German Youth Office (DFJW/OFAJ), Paris, France (October-November)
1998 – Visiting Research Fellowship, Franco-German Institute (DFI), Ludwigsburg, Germany (May-September)
1997 – Luigi Einaudi Fellowship, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University
1996-97 – Visiting Scholar, Free University and International Studies Center (ISB), Berlin, Germany
1996 – Mellon Semester Fellowship, Cornell University
1993-94 – Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
Affiliations
American Political Science Association
Council for European Studies
Funded Research
Krotz currently (since January 2005) holds a Marie Curie Fellowship from the Commission of the European Union in support of his research on special inter-state relations in international politics. (The total contribution of the Commission of the European Union to this research is approximately $170,000.)
The research project on "Bilateralism in World Politics" (jointly conducted with Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University) is hosted and funded by the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). (Multi-year project; logrolling funding.)
Curriculum Vitae
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