A. James McAdamsA. James McAdams

William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs and Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
(PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1983)
211 Brownson Hall
574-631-5253
email: amcadams@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~amcadams/

Geographic focus: Germany, Great Britain; Eastern Europe

Thematic interests: Democratization; transitional justice; politics and technology; comparative foreign policy, philosophies of dictatorship.

Current research: The Rise and Fall of World Communism.

Selected publications: The Crisis of Modern Times (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007); coauthor, Introduction to Comparative Politics (2006); coauthor, Rebirth: A History of Europe (2002); Judging the Past in Unified Germany (2001); editor, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies (1997); Germany Divided: From the Wall to Unification (1993 and 1994); East Germany and Détente: Building Authority After the Wall (1985). Articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Comparative Politics, and other journals.

Working papers: #216: The Honecker Trial: The East German Past and the German Future.