Annette Freyberg-Inan

Annette Freyberg-Inan, born in 1970 in Marburg/Lahn, Germany, holds M.A. degrees in Political Science and English from the Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany (1994) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Georgia, USA (1998).  She took up her position as Assistant Professor for International Relations and Comparative Politics at the UvA Political Science Department and the ASSR in August 2003. Before, she worked as a Civic Education Project (CEP) Visiting Faculty Fellow at three different institutions of higher learning in Bucharest, Romania.

Annette Freyberg-Inan specializes in the fields of International Relations Theory; International Political Economy and Globalization; European Integration, Democratization and Enlargement; Romanian Politics; Political Psychology; and Social Science Methodology.  Her most recent books and journal articles are The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or Dewey Meets Ceausescu: The Promise and the Failures of Civic Education in Romania, with Radu Cristescu (Stuttgart/Hannover: ibidem Verlag); What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature (New York: SUNY Press, 2004); “Rational Paranoia and Enlightened Machismo: The Strange  Psychological Foundations of Realism,” in Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2006;  "Just How Small Is This World Really?: An Application of Network Theory to the Study of Globalization," in Global Networks, Vol. 6, No. 3, July 2006; "Painful Integration or Not So Splendid Isolation? Downsides of European Integration in the Context of Romania's Double Transformation", with Otto Holman, in Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, Vol. 5, Issue 1, May 2005, pp. 93-145; and “Constructing Opposition in the Age of Globalization: The Potential of ATTAC,” with Vicki Birchfield, in Globalizations Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 2, December 2004, pp. 278 - 304.

Her research is currently concentrating a) on the impact of transnationalization on democracy and on social and economic policy, with an empirical focus on the enlarging European Union, b) on the evolution of political economy, democracy, and civic education in Romania, c) on the alter-globalization movement, and d) on re-thinking the future of Realism as an international relations paradigm. At the ASSR, she is also involved in the training of PhDs in research design and methodology as well as academic writing.