Kalypso Nicolaidis: Biographical Note

KALYPSO NICOLAIDIS is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard where she teaches courses on International Security and Political Economy, International Institutions, the European Union and Negotiation Analysis. She also teaches a yearly seminar on international negotiations at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris. She is currently the faculty chair for the Socrates Kokkalis Program on Southeastern Europe and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School. In her research, she combines long-standing interests in exploring the sources of cooperation in regional and multilateral settings and the dynamics of bargaining under complexity. She has published on the EC, Eastern Europe, and the GATT as well as negotiation theory. She is the editor of The Greek Paradox: Promise vs Performance and Strategic Trends in Services: An Inquiry into the World Services Economy. Her upcoming book entitled Mutual Recognition Among Nations: Lessons from the European Experience attempts to draw lessons from the completion of the single market in Europe for the rest of the world, with a focus on trade in services. This work is being extended in several directions, including exploring the meaning of sovereignty transfer in the EU context, the politics of trade linkages within and outside the EU and the dynamics of regulatory competition. Nicolaidis' current research agenda also includes EU and NATO enlargements and their impact on Southeastern Europe, the prevention of deadly conflicts in particular in connection to the international refugee regime, as well as the role of agency and power in negotiation. She has worked in or with several international institutions, including the OECD, GATT, UNCTAD, IIASA and the EC. At Harvard, she is a Faculty Associate of the Center for European Studies and the Center for International Affairs. She holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard, a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School and a Master in International Economics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She is of French and Greek nationality.