Reader (Associate Professor) in International Political Economy
Convenor MA IPE, MA ES, MA EPP EIS Department,
King's College London
e-mail: leila.talani@kcl.ac.uk
Lecturer in European Studies (International and European Political Economy)MA Admissions Tutor (MA in European Public Policy)
Contact Details
European Studies Room E4East Wing Building King’s College London Strand London WC2R 2LSTel: +44 (0)20 7848 7382 Email: leila.talani@kcl.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Leila Simona Talani joined the Department in September 2009 as Lecturer in International and European Political Economy. She was previously a lecturer in European Politics at the University of Bath and a research fellow and then lecturer at the European Research Institute of the London School of Economics. In 2001 she spent a year as Associate Expert on migration issues at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Cairo. She gained a PhD with Distinction from the European University Institute in Florence in 1998. Her thesis has been published as Betting For and Against EMU. Who Wins and Who Loses in Italy and the UK from the Process of European Monetary Integration (2000); she is also the author of European Political Economy: Political Science Perspectives (2004), Between Growth and Stability: the Demise and Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (2008), Back to Maastricht (2008), EU and the Balkans: Policy of integration and disintegration (2008), The future of EMU (Palgrave, 2010), From Egypt to Europe (I.B.Tauris, 2010), The Global crash (Palgrave, forthcoming). Her current research interests focus on the political economy of migration flows from southern Mediterranean countries to the EU and on the credibility of exchange rate commitments and economic agreements. She is a native speaker of Italian but is also fluent in English, Spanish and French, has a working knowledge of German, and is learning Arabic. She teaches 'European Political Economy' and International Political Economy unit and contributes to other politics units.
Research & Teaching
Dr Talani’s research interests lie firmly within the context of International Political Economy. Her primary field of research is the Political Economy of the EU, with a special attention to European Monetary Integration. Her research experience in this field dates back to my Ph.D. Program at the European University Institute of Florence. There she obtained a doctorate in International Political Economy with distinction in 1998 with a thesis on an International political economy approach to the making and credibility of exchange rate agreements.Within this research stream, she published extensively. She is currently working on finalizing the econometric testing of her model of credibility of exchange rate agreements based on an interpretation of Frieden’s (1991) distributional consequences on socio-economic sectors of the adoption of fixed exchange rates. In the field of European Political Economy she also received a Jean Monnet Action Grant for a project on the Eurisation of Bulgaria and Romania.Recently she started working on a research project on the impact of the financial crisis on the City of London. Based on the theory of British exceptionalism in its capitalist development, the research assesses whether the current global financial crisis modifies the balance of power within the British capitalist elite. The ultimate goal is to verify whether the changed socio-economic climate will convince the British Government to finally join EMU.Dr Talani’s other research interest is migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa. Interest in this field of research was developed when she was a research officer of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention of Cairo between September 2000 and September 2001. Her research project assesses the motivations for legal and illegal migration from the Northern Africa/Middle East to the European Union and EU policy responses to it. Adopting a qualitative definition of globalization, the author assesses the impact of globalization on international migratory flow, especially illegal migration from the MENA area to the EU.TEACHINGDr Talani has taught widely on a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the London School of Economics and University of Bath including EU Policies and policy making, Comparative European Politics, European and International Political Economy, International Relations Theory. Within European Studies she currently teaches the undergraduate courses ‘European Political Economy” and ‘Integration of the European Union’ as well as the postgraduate course ‘Global Issues: a Political Economy perspective”.
Publications
Talani, L.S., (2011), (forthcoming), Globalisation, hegemony and the future of the City of London, Palgrave
Talani, L.S., and Della Posta, P., (ed), (2010), (forthcoming)Europe in crisis, Palgrave
Talani, L.S., (ed), (2010), The Global crash, Palgrave
Talani, L.S., (2010, forthcoming), From Egypt to Europe, I.B.Tauris, 330 pp., ISBN: 1845116690
Talani, L.S., (ed)(2009), The future of EMU, Palgrave, 224 pp., ISBN: 0230218415
Talani, L.S., and Casey, B., (2008), Between Growth and Stability: The demise and reform of the Stability and Growth Pact. Edward Elgar, 224 pp., (ISBN 9781847202062)
Talani, L.S., (ed), (2008), Europe and the Balkans: policies of integration and disintegration, CSP, ISBN: 9781847187222
Talani, L.S., Baroncelli, S. and Spagnolo, C., (ed), (2008), After Maastricht, CSP, 450 pp., ISBN:1847185215
Talani, L.S., “The European Central Bank Between Growth and Stability”, Comparative European Politics Journal, (pp. 29), Palgrave, March 2005
Talani, L.S., "OUT OF EGYPT: Globalisation, marginalisation and illegal Muslim migration to the EU" (December 1, 2005). UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. Occasional Lecture Series: Paper 5.http://repositories.cdlib.org/international/cees/ols/5
Talani, L.S., (2004) European Political Economy: Political Science Perspectives, London: Ashgate (pp.238) ISBN/ISSN 0754636518
Talani, L.S., “Avoiding the “G” word in reinventing European and International Governance”, International Studies Review, March 2003 (pp99/100) ISSN1521-9488electronic 1468-2486
Talani, L.S., (2000), Betting for and against EMU. Who wins and who loses in Italy and in the UK from the process of European monetary integration, London: Ashgate (pp.320) ISBN/ISSN 0754610543
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