Hubert
Zimmerman is Acting Professor of Comparative
Politics at Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf. He was DAAD
Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Government,
Cornell University from 2003 to 2008. He taught Political Science
at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum from 1999 to 2003 and graduated
from the European University Institute, Florence, in 1997.
He also worked as editor of German diplomatic documents at
the Auswaertiges Amt, Bonn. His research interests include
the history and politics of transatlantic relations, German
postwar history, European integration, and international monetary
and trade policy. His latest publications include Money and
Security. Troops and Monetary Policy in Germany's Relations
to the United States and the United Kingdom, 1950-71, Cambridge
UP 2002. He recently completed a study comparing EU and U.S.
policies in the process of integrating China into the world
trade system.
Publications
on the process of international economic negotiation:
Zimmerman,
Hubert. 2008. “How the EU Negotiates Trade and Democracy: The Cases
of China’s Accession to the WTO and the Doha Round,” European
Foreign Affairs Review, 13: 2 (March), 255-80.
Zimmerman, Hubert. 2007. “Realist Power Europe? The EU in the Negotiations
about China’s and Russia’s WTO Accession,” in: Journal of
Common Market Studies 45: 4, 813- 32.
Zimmerman, Hubert.
2006. Wege zur Drachenzähmung. Die EU und die USA in den
Verhandlungen um die Aufnahme Chinas in die WTO, 1985-2001. (Taming
the Dragon: The US and the EU in the Negotiations about China's
WTO Accession). Baden Baden: NOMOS.
Zimmerman, Hubert.
2004. Governance by Negotiation: The EU, the United States and
China's Integration into the World Trade System. In New Rules
for Global Markets. Public and Private Governance in the World
Economy, edited by Stefan Schirm. New York York: Palgrave.
Contact
Information:
University of Duesseldorf, Geb. 23.32, 05/22
Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49- 211-81-14555
Fax: +49-21181-12875
zimmermannh@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de