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Biographical overview
Annette Freyberg-Inan joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam as well as the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research in August 2003. She is Associate Professor, the Director of the Master's Program in Political Science, and teaches in the fields of International/World Politics, European Politics and Social Science Methodology. Her research interests center on European integration and EU enlargement, post-communist transition, and the theoretical and normative aspects of International Relations and International Political Economy.
Before joining the UvA, from January 1999 to July 2003, she worked in Bucharest, Romania, as a Visiting Faculty Fellow for the Civic Education Project (CEP) and a Consultant for the United Nations Resident Coordinator System in Romania. In December 1998 she completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Georgia, USA. Her MA degrees in Political Science and English were obtained at the University of Stuttgart in her native Germany.
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
Civic Education Project
The University of Georgia
The University of Stuttgart
TheUnited Nations System in Romania
Research agenda
My dissertation research was focused on International Relations Theory and in particular on assessing the dominant theoretical paradigm of Realism from a political psychological point of view. I have continued this line of research, which searches for appropriate psychological and social psychological foundations for understanding international affairs. Simultaneously, I have developed my expertise in two other broad fields of inquiry: International Political Economy and European integration. Connecting these two fields, I have developed a research program on EU enlargement and integration in the context of political economic change.
I have been researching for well over a decade how official EU policy objectives resonate with the practice of enlargement policy and the development of transnational relations with accession, candidate, and European Neighborhood Policy countries. My main countries of interest have been Romania and Turkey. I have studied three main (and inter-related) factors impinging on the democratic consolidation of Romania: the country's transnationalization (including its integration into the European Union); the development of civic education and political culture; and post-communist economic transformation.
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I am interested in the problem of safeguarding democratic autonomy in the context of transnationalization (or, as some prefer to call it, globalization). Another major item on my research agenda has been an examination of the nature and goals of the so-called alter-globalization movement, which problematizes the challenges posed by the evolution of trans-border governance networks for citizen autonomy. I study the forms of organization as well as the normative agendas of the alter-globalization movement, and what unites the very different groups involved.
A list of my publications and papers can be found elsewhere on this site. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to read but have trouble finding them.
EU and Turkey: Challenges and Opportunities
This EU-funded project in cooperation with Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany and Gediz University in Izmir, Turkey is focused on relations between Turkey and the EU. It includes many public events, lectures, and workshops on the topic as well as a research component focused on the situation of religious minorities in Turkey. For more information please see
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Teaching
I have taught a great variety of courses in the fields of International Relations, European Politics, International Political Economy, Political Psychology, and US Government as well as Research Methodology and Academic Writing. At the Political Science Department of the University of Amsterdam I regularly teach a Master's specialization course in International Relations and courses on European integration and EU enlargement as well as Political Psychology at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Within the Research Master's Program in the Social Sciences I regularly teach Comparative and Case Study Methodology. I also regularly teach a course on research design to the PhD students at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.
The Master's and PhD theses I supervise are quite diverse, but most focus on transnationalization dynamics, often in the context of European integration, enlargement, or foreign relations.
Some other academic activities
I am now Vice-President-elect and have in the past been Non-North American Representative on the Governing Council of the International Studies Association, the most important professional organization of academic experts on international politics.
International Studies Association
I am also Executive Council member of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA)
Central and Eastern European International Studies Association
From 1/1/2012 I will be co-editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development.
Editorial Board member Dilemmas in World Politics series, Westview Press, ed. Jennifer Sterling-Folker
Dilemmas in World Politics series
Editorial Board member, International Relations Studies Series (IRES), Brill, edited by Patrick James
International Relations Studies Series
Advisory board member The Presence of the Past: Theorizing the Interplay of Past and Present Geopolitics in Contemporary Foreign Policy, 3-year research project by Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wivel, financed by the Danish Social Science Research Council
The Presence of the Past
Founding Editor and Editorial Board member, Romanian Journal of Society and Politics
Main Administrative Tasks at the University of Amsterdam
Director of the Master's Program in Political Science, Graduate School for the Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Discipline Coordinator Political Science, Graduate School for the Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Member of the Governing Council (Algemeen Bestuur), Amsterdam School of Social Science Research (ASSR)
