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John T.S. Keeler is a specialist on French politics, comparative public policy and European integration. His major publications include The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic (Oxford), Réformer: Les Conditions du Changement Politique (Presses Universitaires de France), Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization and Malaise in France (St. Martin's) and a special issue of Comparative Political Studies entitled "Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Reform." He has also contributed articles to journals such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics and French Politics and Society and chapters to edited books such as La France présidentielle (Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politique). He is currently completing a book entitled The Limits of Democratic Reform (Oxford). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Comparative Political Studies, a Contributing Editor of Pouvoirs, a member of the Review Board for French Politics and Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of National Resource Center Directors. He has been a research associate or visiting professor at Nuffield College (Oxford), the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (Paris), the London School of Economics and the University of Tubingen. He has also served as a USAID Consultant to the Supreme Rada of Ukraine; his work with the members of parliament involved explaining how elements of the French Fifth Republic's constitution might be "exported" to Ukraine. He received the American Political Science Association's Gabriel A. Almond Award in 1979 and the UW's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992.

Are We Still Partners? Redefining the Atlantic Alliance

Wednesday-Sunday April 16-20, 2003
Thurman J. White Forum Conference Center (OCCE)
University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus

Increasingly, America's attention is being drawn to Asia--with its economic opportunities and security threats--while Europe's attention is focused on itself. Has the Atlantic alliance, so essential to the redevelopment of post-war Europe and the Cold War, served its purpose?

The Seminar Reading List:
These books and articles supplied by OSLEP.

*Defending Europe: The EU, NATO, and the Quest for European Automony, Jolyon Howorth and John T.S. Keeler
*Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo, Ivo Daalder and Michael O'Hanlon
*"Power and Weakness", Policy Review, June 2002, Robert Kagan

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