About the Author

Sophie Meunier is a Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8084.html (Princeton University Press, August 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/press/books/french_challenge .htm (with Philip Gordon, Brookings Institution Press, December 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book award http://www.france-ameriques.org/. Meunier has published many articles on the European Union, the politics of international trade, globalization, and French politics. Her current research focuses on anti-Americanism in France, the complex links between Europeanization and globalization, and the nesting/overlapping of international institutions.
Kathleen McNamara is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union (Cornell University Press, 1998) and articles on the social embeddedness of the economy, central banking, and globalization. Her current research compares the creation of political authority in the European Union to the historical experience of nation-states. Dr. McNamara previously taught at Princeton University, has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris).