Dr. Mareike Kleine

Biography

Mareike Kleine is an Associate Professor at the European Institute, London School of Economics, where she has been since September 2009. Her research interests encompass theories of international organization, international political economy, informal and formal governance, and the interplay between domestic politics and international institutions. She focuses on negotiation theories and normative questions of global governance. Her book, 'Informal Governance in the European Union' published by Cornell University Press in 2013, demonstrates how informal norms within EU international organizations enable states to manage unexpected domestic political shocks. Her scholarly work has been published in several prestigious journals including International Theory, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and Review of International Organizations. Mareike has held visiting positions at Princeton University’s European Union Program, Harvard University's Center for European Studies, and the University of St. Gallen. She earned her PhD in political science from Freie Universität Berlin in 2009, where her doctoral thesis won the Theseus Award for Promising Research on European Integration and the Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association.

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