Andrew Moravcsik is a Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of the European Union Program at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in History from Stanford University, M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He was also a Fulbright Fellow from 1980 t0 1982 at the Universities of Hamburg. 

Professor Moravcsik’s research interests include the history and theory of European integration; democracy in the EU and other international organizations; the origins and evolution of global human rights norms; human rights, sovereignty, and American unilateralism; international law; negotiation theory and transnational political entrepreneurship; theories of international relations; methodology and historiography; and international power, global geopolitics, and European foreign policy.

Representative Publications

“Liberal Intergovernmentalism,” in Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez, eds. European Integration Theory 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). (with Frank Schimmelfennig)

“The Paradox of US Human Rights Policy,” in Michael Ignatieff, ed. American Exceptionalism and Human Rights (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)

“Why Is U.S. Human Rights Policy So Unilateralist?” in Patrick Stewart and Shepard Forman, eds. Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement (Boulder: Lynne Riener Publishers, 2001)