Section: Staff Profiles

Chad Damro

Name
Dr Chad Damro
Title
Senior Lecturer
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 6698
E-Mail
Research Interests
EU external relations
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/damro_chad

 

Office Hours:

Tuesdays, 2:30-4:30

Qualifications

  • BA (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
  • MA (Syracuse University)
  • Phd (University of Pittsburgh)

Recent Posts

In addition to Senior Lecturer of Politics and International Relations, Chad is Co-Director of the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Chad has served as a Policy Analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leuven's Institute for European and International Policy, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Center Associate at the University of Pittsburgh's EU Center, a Visiting Scholar at Texas A&M University and an EU Fulbright Scholar at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2006, Chad was awarded the Sir Bernard Crick prize (New Entrant) for excellence in teaching by the UK's Political Studies Association. He has also been awarded a three-year Jean Monnet Module Grant from the European Commission, a research grant from the Carnegie Trust and is a member of the MERCURY project on 'Multilateralism and the EU in the Contemporary Global Order'.

Research Interests

Chad’s research generally falls within the fields of International Relations and International Political Economy, with particular emphases on transatlantic relations, international regulatory cooperation, and the role of the European Union in international politics. He is particularly interested in exploring both the international and domestic causes of state action. For example, his book investigates the role of domestic politics in International Relations, specifically the interaction between the EU and the United States in the regulation of transatlantic corporate mergers. In other publications, he explores similar issues and questions with the literatures of comparative politics and public policy. His research covers a number of policy areas, including regulation, competition, industrial, trade and environmental policy.

Selected Publications

  • "Market Power Europe," Journal of European Public Policy, Special Issue on Best Papers of 2011 EUSA Conference, 19, 5 (2012).
  • "Destructive Issue Linkages: The Failure of Multilateral Trade-Competition Negotiations," Anti-trust Bulletin, summer (2012).
  • "Regulators, Firms and Information: The Domestic Sources of Convergence in Transatlantic Merger Review," Review of International Political Economy 18, 4: 409-435 (2011).
  • "The EU and Climate Change Policy: Law, Politics and Prominence at Different Levels," Journal of Contemporary European Research 4, 3: 179-192 (2008) (co-authored with Donald MacKenzie and Iain Hardie).
  • "EU Delegation and Agency in International Trade Negotiations: A Cautionary Comparison," Journal of Common Market Studies, 45, 4: 881-901 (2007).
  • Cooperating on Competition in Transatlantic Economic Relations, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave (2006).
  • “Transatlantic Competition Policy: Domestic and International Sources of EU-US Cooperation,” European Journal of International Relations 12, 2: 171-196 (2006).
  • “The New Trade Politics and EU Competition Policy: Shopping for Convergence and Cooperation,” Journal of European Public Policy 13, 6: 867-886 (2006).
  • “The EU and International Environmental Politics: The Challenges of Shared Competence,” in Intersecting Multilateralisms: The European Union at the United Nations, Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith, eds., 175-192 (2006), London: Palgrave.
  • “Security Strategy and the Transatlantic Defense Industry,” in The Transatlantic Security Alliance, Roland Dannreuther and John Peterson, eds., 132-146 (2006), London: Routledge.
  • “Multilateral Competition Policy and Transatlantic Compromise,” European Foreign Affairs Review 9, 2: 269-287 (2004).
  • “Emissions Trading at Kyoto: From EU Resistance to Union Innovation,” Environmental Politics 12, 2 (Summer): 71-94 (2003) (co-authored with Pilar Luaces MÉndez).
  • "Building an International Identity: The EU and Extraterritorial Competition Policy," Journal of European Public Policy 8, 2: 208-226 (2001).

Current Research and Teaching

At the Honours level, Chad teaches courses on transatlantic relations and the EU as a global actor; he also contributes lectures on Introduction to Politics and International Relations. At the postgraduate level, he teaches on the institutions and policies of the EU, the EU in international affairs, and globalisation and European integration.

Chad has membership in the following Politics Research Groups: International Politics, European Integration and Public Policy

Links to Publications

C. Damro, Cooperating on Competition in Transatlantic Economic Relations,Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. (2006)

Topics interested in supervising

Chad is able to offer research supervision on most topics related to European Union foreign policy and the EU in international relations, in particular studies of EU regulatory, trade and environmental relations with other state and non-state actors (including international organisations and regions).

If you are interested in being supervised by Chad Damro, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Politics

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