Prof.Dr.Christoph Scherrer

Areas of Expertise

• International Political Economy: Governance of world markets, international labor standards, cross-national transfer of institutions, theories of the International Political Economy.
• American politics: Foreign economic policy making, industrial policy, labor politics.
  
  

EDUCATION and Professional Experience

2000 -	Full Professor in Political Science for "Globalization and Politics", University of Kassel
2000	Visiting Professor for European Societal Politics, Berlin School of Economics
1999	Dr. habil. in Political and Social Sciences, Berlin
spring semester 1994	Visiting Professor, Rutgers University at Newark
1990 - 1998	Assistant Professor, Kennedy-Institute, Berlin
1989	Dr. phil. in Political Science, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
1986	Minor in American Studies (Zusatzprüfung), Frankfurt
1984	M.A. Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), Frankfurt

Recent Research Aeras

• Globalization and the German Economy
  "The Challenges of Globalization for the East-German Metal Industry," in cooperation with the SOFI in Göttingen, Hans-Böckler-Foundation (2003-2006).
  Completed: "Globalization without Capital? Financing East German Enterprises," and "Perspectives of the German Economy," funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation.
• International Trade in Services
  "Gender, Commodification, and Knowledge Production," Work package Gender in International Political Economy (GIPE) within the EU Network of Excellency GARNET (2005-).
  Completed: A number of projects on GATS funded by Hans-Böckler-, Max-Träger-, and Friedrich-Ebert- Foundation, Arbeiterkammer Wien, ILO
• Social Dimensions of International Trade
  Completed: A number of projects on core labor rights and trade funded by Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, German Parliament, German Foreign Office.
• Theories of International Political Economy
  "Commodification as a Contested Terrain" (2005-).
  Completed: Research on Regulation School , Neo-Gramscian and poststructuralist Approaches (Grants such as Kennedy-Memorial-Scholarship, DAAD, Hewlett Trust, German Marshall Fund of the USA .
  
  

International Experience

2003	Visiting Fellow, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
1996-1997	J.F. Kennedy-Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University
1994	Visiting Professor, Rutgers University at Newark
1993	Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science, Yale University
1992	Hewlett Scholar, The John E. Andrus Center for Public Affairs, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1985-1986	Project Specialist "The Governance of the American Economy," Department of History, University of Wisconsin , Madison
1977-1978	Community Organizer, P.A.C.E., Providence , R.I. , U.S.A.

Selected Publications in English (since 1991)

• 2005: GATS: Long-term Strategy for the Commodification of Education , in: Review of International Political Economy , 12(3) 484-510.
• 2005: The Role of GATS in the Commodification of Education, in: Bernd Hamm and Russell Smandrych (eds.), Cultural Imperialism. Essays on the Political Economy of Cultural Domination , Peterborough , Ontario , Canada , 167-190.
• 2005: Surviving Globalization? Perspectives for the German Economic Model , co-edited with Beck, Stefan, Frank Klobes, Berlin , Springer. {also listed under books}
• 2005: Explaining the Dynamics of Red-Green Economic Reforms, co-authored with Stefan Beck, in: Beck, Stefan, Frank Klobes und Christoph Scherrer (eds.), Surviving Globalization? Perspectives for the German Economic Model , Berlin , Springer, 201-224.
• 2005: Can Germany Learn from the USA ? Some Theoretical Observations, in: Beck, Stefan, Frank Klobes und Christoph Scherrer (eds.), Surviving Globalization? Perspectives for the German Economic Model , Berlin , Springer, 15-32.
• 2005: Beyond Path Dependency and Competitive Convergence: Institutional Transfer from a Discourse-Analytical Perspective, in: Gerhard Fuchs und Philip Shapira (eds.), Path Dependency Theory and its Regional Applications , New York , Springer, 1-21.
• 2004: Global Governance: From Fordist Trilateralism to Neoliberal Constitutionalism, in: Stefan A. Schirm (Hrsg.), New Rules for Global Markets. Public and Privates Governance in the World Economy, Houndmills, Basingstoke , Palgrave Macmillan, 109-130.
• 2004: Beyond Path Dependency and Competitive Convergence: Institutional Transfer from a Discourse-Analytical Perspective, in: Gerhard Fuchs und Philip Shapira (Hrsg.) Path Dependency Theory and its Regional Applications, Kluwer Press, chapter 1.
• 2002: World Trade Organization - WTO, in: William Lazonik (ed.) The Handbook of International Economics , International Encyclopedia of Business and Management (IEBM), International Thomson Business Press, London , Thompson, 505-512.
• 2001: Double Hegemony? State and Class in American Foreign Economic Policymaking, in: Amerikastudien 46 (4), 573-591.
• 2001 (with Thomas Greven): Global Rules for Trade: Codes of Conduct, Social Labeling, and Workers' Rights Clauses, Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot.
• 2000 (with Boy Lüthje): "Race, Multiculturalism, and Labour Organising in the United States ", in: Capital & Class, 73, 141-171 .
• 1998: "Protecting Labor in the Global Economy: A Social Clause in Trade Agreements?," in: New Political Science , 20(1), 53-68.
• 1998: "US Labour Relations and the North American Free Trade Area," in: Wolfgang E. Lecher and Hans W. Platzer (eds.) European Union - European Industrial Relations? Global Challenge, National Development and Transitional Dynamics , London , Routledge Studies in the European Economy 4, 255-269.
• 1997: "International Labor Standards: The Use and Effectiveness of a Social Clause in International Trade Agreements," in: Dimitri Kantaleris (ed.), Business and Economics for the 21st Century - Vol. I, Worcester , MA , Assumption Press, 284-296 .
• 1997: "The Pros and Cons of International Labour Standards," in: Norbert Malanowski (ed.), Social and Environmental Standards in International Trade Agreements: Links, Implementations and Prospects, Münster, Westfälisches Dampfboot, 32-44.
• 1996: "The Economic and Political Arguments For and Against Social Clauses," in: Intereconomics, 31(1) 9-20.
• 1995: "The Commitment to a Liberal World Market Order as a Hegemonic Practice: The Case of the USA ," in: Journal of World-Systems Research , Vol. 1, Number 4, (Internet: //csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/journals).
• 1995: "Surprising Resilience: The Steelworkers' Struggle to Hang On to the Fordist Bargain," in: Glenn Perusek and Kent Worcester (eds.) Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s , Atlantic Highlands , N.J. , Humanities Press, 140-168.
• 1994: "Industrial Policy Internationalism: Maintaining the Commitment to a Liberal World Market Order," in: Socialist Review , 23(4) 79-98.
• 1991: "Seeking a Way Out of Fordism: The U.S. Auto and Steel Industries," in: Capital & Class , No. 44 (summer) 93-120.
• 1991: "Governance of the Steel Industry. What Caused the Disintegration of the Oligopoly?," in: John C. Campbell, Leon N. Lindberg, and J.Rogers Hollingsworth (eds.), Governance of the American Economy , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 182-208.
• 1991: "Governance of the Automobile Industry: The Transformation of Labor and Supplier Relations," in: John C. Campbell, Leon N. Lindberg, and J. Rogers Hollingsworth (eds.), Governance of the American Economy , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 209-235.

Books

• 2006: GATS Dienstleistungsliberalisierung: Umwelt-. Transport- und Gesundheitsdienstleistungen, co-authored with Thomas Fritz, Kai Mosebach und Werner Raza, Düsseldorf, edition der Hans Böckler Stiftung Band 168. {GATS: Environmental Transport, and Health Services}
• 2005: Globalisierung gestalten. Weltökonomie und soziale Standards , co-authored with Thomas Greven, Bonn, Band 440 der Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. {Shaping Globalization: World Economy and Social Standards}
• 2005: Surviving Globalization? Perspectives for the German Economic Model , co-edited with Beck, Stefan, Frank Klobes, Berlin , Springer.
• 2002 (with Thomas Fritz): GATS: Zu wessen Diensten? Öffentliche Aufgaben unter Globalisierungsdruck ; Hamburg, VSA-Verlag. {GATS: To Whose Service?}
• 2002 (with St. Beck, G. Caglar): Nach der New Economy: Perspektiven der deutschen Wirtschaft , Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. {Perspectives on the German Economy}
• 2002 (with Thomas Fritz): GATS 2000. Arbeitnehmerinteressen und die Liberalisierung des Dienstleistungshandels , Düsseldorf, edition der Hans Böckler Stiftung. {Workers' Interests and the Liberalization of Trade in Services}
• 2001 (with Thomas Greven): Global Rules for Trade: Codes of Conduct, Social Labeling, and Workers' Rights Clauses , Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot.
• 1999: Globalisierung wider Willen: Die Durchsetzung liberaler Außenwirtschaftspolitik in den USA . Berlin , Ed. Sigma. {Globalization Against Popular Will? Enforcing Liberal Foreign Economic Policies in the USA }
• 1999: Jobwunder USA - Modell für Deutschland? , co-edited with Sabine Lang and Margit Mayer, Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. {Job Miracle USA - Model for Germany?}
• 1998 (with Volker Frank and Thomas Greven): Sozialklauseln. Arbeiterrechte im Welthandel , Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. {Social Clause. Labor Rights and International Trade}
• 1997: Zwischen Rassismus und Solidarität. Diskriminierung, Einwanderung und Gewerkschaften in den USA , co-edited with Boy Lüthje, Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot.{Migration, Racism and Multicultural Solidarity}
• 1996 (with Norbert Malanowski): Internationale Handelsvereinbarungen und Sozialstandards. Nordamerikanische Erfahrungen, Düsseldorf, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. {Trade Treaties and Social Standards}
• 1993: Jenseits des Sozialpakts. Neue Unternehmensstrategien, Gewerkschaften und Arbeitskämpfe in den USA, co-edited with Boy Lüthje, Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. {Beyond the Social Pact. New Management Strategies, Unions, and Labor Struggles in the U.S.A. }
• 1992: Im Bann des Fordismus. Die Auto- und Stahlindustrie der USA im internationalen Konkurrenzkampf , Berlin, Sigma Bohn. {Under the Spell of Fordism. The Struggle of the U.S. Auto- and Steel Industries for International Competitiveness}
• 1988 (with Research Group): "...Stück für Stück verkauft". Umbau der Bundespost - Folgen für die Beschäftigten , Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften, edited by Deutschen Postgewerkschaft, Bezirk Hessen, Frankfurt. {Restructuring of the German Postal System - Ramifications for Its Employees}

Co-operation with unions

• Member of the scientific board of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, of the study group "Future" Otto-Brenner-Stiftung, and of the study group "International Economic Policies" of the DGB.
• Numerous research projects on labour issues
• Numerous lectures at various trade union educational facilities and events.
• Consultant to trade unions in Leipzig ( East Germany ) on industrial policy issues, financed by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung and the ÖTV (1990)