Axel Huelsemeyer

Dr. Axel Huelsemeyer works in the subfield of International Political Economy where he covers the global and regional integration of trade and finance among advanced industrial states. His research concentrates on the systematic comparison of regional economic integration schemes (“preferential trading arrangements” – PTAs), primarily in Europe and in the Western hemisphere. He currently holds an FQRSC research grant on the prospects and likely shape of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and a joint SSHRC grant (with Dr. Kanji) about public support for further European integration. Separate book projects for both research initiatives are in progress. Conceived as a teaching tool, an IPE Reader with Oxford University Press is under contract. Dr. Huelsemeyer serves on the Editorial Board of Foreign Policy Analysis; as of 2009, he will become one of the journal’s Editors. He is also on the Editorial Board of the BRILL International Relations Studies Series (Martin Nijnhoff Publishers, Leiden, NL). Within the Department, he has acted as Honour’s Advisor and Undergraduate Program Director (2004-2006) and as Graduate Program Director (2006-2008).

Publications

Books

• Hülsemeyer, Axel (2004), Globalization and Institutional Adjustment: Federalism as an Obstacle? Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

• Hülsemeyer, Axel, ed. (2003), Globalization in the Twenty-First Century: Convergence or Divergence? Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Monograph

• Huelsemeyer, Axel (2004), Toward Deeper North American Integration: A Customs Union? (Canadian-American Public Policy Occasional Paper No. 59), Orono, ME: Canadian-American Center, University of Maine.

Book Chapter

• Hülsemeyer, Axel (2006), “The Political Economy of Canada’s Relations with the European Union,” in Canadian Foreign Policy: A Handbook, edited by Patrick James, Nelson Michaud, and Marc J. O’Reilly, Lanham, MD: Lexington, pp. 365-88.

Journal Article

• Hülsemeyer, Axel (2000), “Changing ‘Political Economies of Scale’ and Public Sector Adjustment: Insights from Fiscal Federalism,” Review of International Political Economy 7(1): 72-100.