Tanja A. Börzel

Biography

Tanja A. Börzel is the holder of the Chair for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin. She promoted in 1999 to the European Higher Education Institute in Florence, Italy. Between 1999 and 2004 she researched and taught at the Max Planck Project Group Law of Community Goods in Bonn, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. Their research interests and teacher training lie in the field of governance, diffusion and comparative regionalism research. It has dealt primarily with questions of institutional change as a result of Europeanization and the diffusion of European institutions and policy programs in and outside the European Union. Since 2009, she has been working with Thomas Risse to lead the research group "Transformative Power Europe - the Diffusion of Ideas" and has co-ordinated the FP7 Co-operation Project "Maximizing the Enlargement Capacity of the European Union"

Research Interest

Their research interests and teacher training lie in the field of governance, diffusion and comparative regionalism research. It has dealt primarily with questions of institutional change as a result of Europeanization and the diffusion of European institutions and policy programs in and outside the European Union. Since 2009, she has been working with Thomas Risse to lead the research group "Transformative Power Europe - the Diffusion of Ideas" and has co-ordinated the FP7 Co-operation Project "Maximizing the Enlargement Capacity of the European Union"