Beverly Crawford Biography

Beverly Crawford is Adjunct Professor of Political Science and International and Area Studies Co-Director of the European Union Center of Excellence and Associate director of Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from U.C. Berkeley as well as an M.A. in international relations from Boston University and a B.A. in German from Chapman College. She has written an analysis of modern Germany’s approach to international relations called “Power and German Foreign Policy: Embedded Hegemony in Europe.” Her previous book “Economic Vulnerability in International Relations” explores the United States’ foreign policy on export controls. She is the co-editor of The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region and The Myth of Ethnic Conflict: Politics Economics and Cultural Violence and has written numerous policy papers and articles on the causes of cultural conflict in Europe Greece Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia. She served as principal investigator on the “Global Economic Integration Liberalization and Ethnic Conflict” project funded by the The Pew Charitable Trusts. Most recently she co-edited The Convergence of Civilizations? Constructing a Mediterranean Region and wrote the lead article in Cultures and Globalization: Conflicts and Tensions she was recently invited to speak on “culture and conflict” at the World Cultural Forum in Rio de Janeiro and she regularly consults with the U.S. government on the economic roots of ethnic and sectarian conflict German and U.S. foreign policy export control policy and law corporate technology transfer issues in an international context and on the European Union. She works with community organizations in San Francisco and Berkeley California to identify best practices for training low-income people to work in the hi-tech economy in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has held fellowships from the Danforth Foundation the Pew Charitable Trusts the Friedrich Ebert Foundation the Hoover Institution at Stanford University the Exxon Education Foundation the Howard Pew Freedom Trust Diplomatic Training Program the German Academic Exchange Service and the Social Science Research Council. She has also served as a Fulbright Fellow in both Germany and Bulgaria and is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Dresden The Free University of Berlin Bocconi University and the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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