New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University professor Andrew Moravcsik, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha González Laya and UK diplomat Robert Cooper will teach at the School of Transnational Governance (STG) on a range of policy issues.
STG Director Alexander Stubb welcomed the professors: “I am extremely happy to welcome these four remarkable personalities to our team. Each of them has, in their own respective field, made a special mark on international affairs and public policy. Our students, fellows and training participants will benefit enormously from their contribution.”
Anne-Marie Slaughter is CEO of think-tank New America. Among her many previous roles, she was the first woman to serve as Director of Policy Planning during the Obama administration and was Dean of Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs from 2002-2009. An international lawyer and foreign policy analyst, Slaughter is an acclaimed author on European Union politics, network theories of world politics and gender equality. Her latest book “Renewal” (2021) is a story of crisis and change weaving together personal reflections with insights from social science research.
Andrew Moravcsik of Princeton University is renowned for his academic research and policy writing on European integration, international organisations, human rights, and other topics. He developed the theory of liberal intergovernmentalism to explain EU politics. His teaching and training in Florence will have a strong transatlantic dimension, looking at how EU-US relations develop.
Arrancha González Laya was Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation in 2020-2021. Gonzalez’ career spans the European Commission and international organisations with a strong focus on trade, including a seven-year stint as Executive Director of the UN International Trade Center, which will also reflect in her STG professorship.”
Robert Cooper is an experienced British diplomat who has written extensively on international relations. Cooper worked for two High Representatives, Javier Solana and Cathy Ashton on a range of EU foreign and security issues including Iran, the Balkans and Myanmar. His latest book, “The Ambassadors, Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times” puts the case that individuals - as well great historic forces - play a role in world history.
Cooper will teach in the master’s course on EU foreign and security policy in a post-Western world, alongside Miroslav Lajčák, STG part-time professor and EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues, and STG Executive Director Fabrizio Tassinari. On Friday 4 March 2022, Robert Cooper will discuss some of the key questions arising from Russia’s aggression on Ukraine in a conversation with STG students which is open to the public.
The four new professors take up part-time positions and will contribute across the STG’s teaching and training programmes, from the specialisation track in the Master of Transnational Governance to executive trainings for policy professionals.