Korbel ranked 12th best place in the world to earn a master’s degree in international relations.
Korbel ranked 20th in the world for the best undergraduate degree in international studies.
Korbel ranked 12th best place in the world to earn a master’s degree in international relations.
Korbel ranked 20th in the world for the best undergraduate degree in international studies.
Professor
Director of Research
I began my academic career as a comparative political economist, graduating from Oxford University in 1985, writing on the international crisis in the iron and steel industry in the 1980s, with a focus on France, Italy and Germany, while also working as consultant for Oxford Analytica (covering the steel industry) and The Economist Intelligence Unit (Italian politics and economy). Research and teaching positions at the Universities of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Salford and Manchester (also both UK) in the 1980s and early 1990s, were followed by a long period at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, from 1994 to 2006, during which my work extended to the areas of comparative welfare states, labor markets, varieties of capitalism, and Italian and EU social and employment policy. My major teaching responsibilities at the EUI were in educating and training PhD students (EUI students come from all European Union countries, creating a highly stimulating multilingual and multidisciplinary environment) and I supervised some 25 dissertations while there. My teaching until then had principally covered comparative European politics (focusing on Britain, France and Italy), the European Union and comparative political economy. I also played a key role while in helping build the EUI Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (modelled on Harvard's Kennedy School), which has evolved from a small research center with a dozen or so visiting research fellows each year into one of Europe's major social-science research hubs.
After moving to the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in 2006, my research interests remained Europe-focused, but now included the global financial crisis, European Monetary Union, and European Union banking regulation, with forays into the politics and economic consequences of Brexit (Britain exit from the European Union) as well as regional development in Europe, East and West. My teaching, on the other hand, became "globalized" as was appropriate and necessary in a school of international studies. Although I initially drew on my experience at EUI in Florence to develop new courses for PhD students at the Josef Korbel School, including Research Methods, The Philosophy of Social Science, and Comparative Politics, my most taught courses - The Global Economy; The Politics of International Trade; and Comparative Public Policy and Finance - now cover not just Europe but advanced economies in general in comparison with developing countries. In endeavoring to cover in those courses the various elements of globalization and the quite different though closely entwined fates of nations in the developed and developing worlds, and of course communicating those complex phenomena to students, my own intellectual interests and understanding of the world have also expanded, “one of the great benefits of working in a school with a global outlook."
At the Josef Korbel School I also served as the Director of the PhD program for many years until very recently and was Associate Dean from 2012-2016. Currently I am Director of Research, a position which includes most importantly assisting member of faculty match their research interests and ambitions with funding, both internal and external to the University of Denver.
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Sié Center, Scrivner Institute
International Studies, Global Economic Affairs, Public Policy
Rhodes, Martin John, Ferrera, Maurizio, Hemerijck, Anton (editor/s), Rhodes, Martin John, Ferrera, Maurizio, Hemerijck, Anton, The Future of Social Europe: Recasting Work and Welfare in the New Economy, Oeiras, Celta Editora, 2000 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/6180
- ed. with Erik Jones, Paul Heywood and Uli Sedelmeier, Developments in European Politics #1, London: Macmillan-Palgrave 2006.
- with Bob Hanck and Mark Thatcher, Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradiction and Complementarities in the European Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008 ed., with A. Heritier, New Modes of Governance in Europe: Governing in the Shadow of Hierarchy, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011. with S. Avdagic & J. Visser, Social Pacts in Europe: Emergence, Evolution & Institutionalization, Oxford University Press, 2011. ed., with E. Jones, P. Heywood & U. Sedelmeier, Developments in European Politics #2, London: Macmillan-Palgrave, 2011.
- ed. with Maurizio Ferrera, Recasting European Welfare States, Routledge (e-book) 2013. ed. with J. A. Caporaso, The Political & Economic Dynamics of the Eurozone Crisis, Oxford University Press, 2016. ed. with M. Moschella, Politica in Italia: I Fatti dell Anno e Le Interpretazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020.
- ed. with Martin Bull, Italy: A Contested Polity, West European Politics, 30, 4, September 2007 ed., with T. Borzel & R. Epstein, ˜Peripheries in Competition: The Politics & Political Economy of Convergence & Divergence in the European Union, West European Politics, 45, 3, 2019. ed., with M. Moschella,˜Politics in Italy 2020. A Tale of Two Populisms: The League & the Five-Star Movement in Power, Contemporary Italian Politics, 12, 2, 2020.
Employment Policy: Between Efficacy and Experimentation, in H. Wallace, M. Pollack and A. Young (eds.), Policy-Making in the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 293-318.
Southern Europe in Social Science: A 'Southern European Model' in M. Baumeister and R. Sala (eds.), A Southern Periphery? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece in Post-war Europe, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2015, 51-76.
- with J. Lynch, "The Welfare State", in O. Fioretos, T. G. Falleti, and A. Sheingate (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 417-437.
Brexit “A Disaster for Britain and for the European Union"", in Andreas D and Hubert Zimmermann (eds.), Key Controversies in European Integration, 2nd Edition, Palgrave-Macmillan 2016, 251-258.
Tangentopoli "More than Twenty Years On", in E. Jones, M. Gilbert and G. Pasquino (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 309-324.
- with R. A. Epstein, "States Ceding Control: Explaining the Shift to Centralized Bank Supervision in the Eurozone", Journal of Banking Regulation, 17, 1-2, 2016, pp. 90-103.
- with R. A. Epstein, "The Political Dynamics of European Banking Union", West European Politics, 39, 3, 2016, pp. 415-437.
- with S. A. Perez. "The Evolution and Crises of the Social Models in Italy and Spain", in J. E. Dolvik and A. Martin (eds.), European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis: Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 177-213.
- with R. A. Epstein, "From Governance to Government: Banking Union, Capital Markets Union and the New EU", Competition and Change, 22, 2 , 2018, pp. 205-224.
Rhodes, M. J., Epstein, R., & Börzel, T. A. (2019). Introduction: peripheries in competition? Political and economic development in the EU. West European Politics, 42(5), 927–940. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1609195
- with R. A. Epstein, "Good and Bad Banking on Europe's Periphery: Pathways to Catching Up and Falling Behind", West European Politics, 42, 5, June 2019, pp. 965-988.
'Brexit - a Political and Economic Disaster for Britain', in H. Zimmermann and A. D (eds,) Key Controversies in European Integration, 3rd Edition, Palgrave-Macmillan 2021.
'Failing forward: a critique in light of covid-19. Journal of European Public Policy, 28, 10, 2021, 1537-1554.
Distinguished University Professor, University of Denver
University Lecturer, University of Denver
The Global Economy: Conflict, Crisis and Cooperation [this masters-level course covers globalization arguments and evidence of changes in the global economy and national economic systems, both in developed and developed countries, in the 20th and 21st centuries].
Comparative Public Policy and Finance [this masters-level course covers national fiscal and welfare systems and their transformation in the contemporary period, in both the developed and developing world].
The Politics of Global Trade, Investment and Production [this masters-level course covers the politics of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements since the 1950s, against the background of the transformation and relocation of production processes in that period].
Comparative Politics [this doctoral-level course provides a survey and critical appraisal of the most important areas of comparative politics research and methodologies].
Ph.D., Philosophy, Oxford University, 1985
M.A. (1st class honours), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1978
B.A., University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1978
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