Moravcsik's areas of interest include European integration, transnational democracy, human rights, Asian regionalism, international organization, negotiation analysis, international relations theory, European foreign policies, transatlantic relations, defense-industrial globalization and qualitative/historical methods--on which he has published over 125 scholarly books, articles, chapters or reviews. His analytical history of the European Union, The Choice for Europe (1998), has been called "the most important work in the field." (American Historical Review) He is a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, with which he has participated in several projects. His commentary appears regularly in Newsweek and occasionally in many other publications, including the Financial Times, Prospect and Foreign Affairs. He has received grants from the Fulbright, German Marshall, Krupp and other foundations. Before entering academia, he served as trade negotiator in the US government, special assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, and editor of a Washington foreign policy journal. He has recently served on various public policy panels and commissions. He holds a public policy degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also publishes on opera, both as a music critic and as a scholar. During the academic year 2007-8, he was on leave in Shanghai. PhD, Harvard.