America Presents

"United States -European Union Relations During the Second Bush Administration"

Roy H. Ginsberg is Professor of Government and founding director of the International Affairs program at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Professor Ginsberg teaches international and comparative politics, United States foreign policy, and European integration at Skidmore College and has directed student participation in intercollegiate simulations of the United Nations, the European Union, and the North Atlantic Council. He was Project Director of $300,000 in funding from the United States Department of Education for the development of the international affairs and international environmental studies programs at Skidmore College. He has submitted congressional testimony on transatlantic relations and conducts briefings for various foreign policy agencies and institutes in Washington and Europe.

He is author or coauthor of Foreign Policy Actions of the European Community: The Politics of Scale and Ten Years of European Foreign Policy: Baptism, Confirmation, Validation. His new book Demystifying European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration will be published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2006. Professor Ginsberg speaks regularly on transatlantic relations in Europe and the United States and is a consultant to U.S. government agencies on European Union affairs and to U.S. universities on international studies education.