Professor Matthias Kaelberer specializes in international relations, comparative politics and political economy. His research has focused on various aspects of European politics and international monetary relations.

His book Money and Power in Europe: The Political Economy of European Monetary Cooperation (Albany: State University of New York Press 2001) used theories of bargaining power to explain the formation of rules in European monetary cooperation. In addition, Dr. Kaelberer’s work has touched on the incentives for monetary cooperation.

Changes in the party systems of Western Europe and the emergence of green parties have been a secondary area of his research. At the present time, Dr. Kaelberer’s research agenda is moving toward broader questions of monetary governance and the explanation of monetary transformation processes. Several of his recent and current projects look at the role of collective identity, trust and democracy in the context of European monetary unification.

His current book project seeks to answer the question of how the supra-national governance of Europe’s single currency – the euro – can function within a framework that still incorporates separate nation-states and diverse societies.

Dr. Kaelberer’s articles have appeared in Review of International Studies, Comparative Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, Contemporary Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy, German Politics and Society, the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, and German Politics.

Professor Kaelberer teaches courses in international relations, comparative politics and international political economy. He joined the Department of Political Science in the fall of 2004.