Brigham Young University

 

12:00 PM

 

AICGS

RGL Conference Room

1755 Massachusetts Ave NW

 

 

AICGS is very pleased to welcome Dr. Wade Jacoby to a discussion about the lessons from German Unification and the transition from communism in East Central Europe. He will look at the German approach to reintegrate eastern Germany since 1990 and point to both the successes and failures of the German approach in comparison to approaches taken in other East Central European post communist transitions.

 

Wade Jacoby is associate professor of political science and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He teaches courses on German and European politics, political economy, and international security. His Ph.D. is in political science from MIT. Jacoby’s first book, Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany (Cornell University Press, was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000. His latest book, The Enlargement of the EU and Nato: Ordering from the Menu in Central in 2005. Jacoby has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, German Politics and Society, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, East European Constitutional Review, WSI-Mitteilungen, Governance, and The British Journal of Industrial Relations. Before academia, Jacoby worked as a legislative assistant in the US House of Representatives, as a research analyst for the Arms Control Association, and as a quarterback for a Bundesliga American football team.