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Claudia is a scholar of European and international politics. She is particularly interested in political power or authority, and the role that ideas, ideologies, and stories can play in shaping the relationships between citizens, peoples, and their states or international organisations. She seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical and empirical research, by exploring what concepts such as 'legitimacy' or 'recognition' mean to different people.
Her work on the traces the history of ideas and contests regarding the EU's legitimacy in public debate and in discourses of the European institutions, and asks what we can learn from it with a view to political legitimacy more broadly.听Her second听, co-authored with Kalypso Nicolaidis and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, explores the Euro crisis from the perspective of mutual recognition, an idea at the very heart of the European project, and of how Greeks and Germans have offended each other over its course, and how to recover from this. 听
Her latest book is听, co-edited with Sophia Psarra and Uta Staiger.听
Claudia joined the Institute in 2015, coming听to UCL from Oxford University, where she was an Early Career Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations Oxford and St Hugh's College (2009-2015) and also held a Research Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2009-2011).听Trained at Cambridge (PhD, MPhil), Yale (MA), Sciences Po (recurrent visiting doctoral student), and the Freie Universit盲t Berlin (undergraduate), she also spent one听year as a contract lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universit茅 libre in Brussel (2008-2009).
Her research has received the 2014 UACES Best Book Prize, the 2015 Pademia and the 2013 Theseus Awards, as well as the 2002 Sage Award for Best APSA Paper in Comparative Politics.
Books
2023 (edited with Sophia Psarra and Uta Staiger). . UCL Press ().
2017 (with Kalypso Nicola茂dis and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni). Palgrave.
2015 (edited with Eric Monnet). , Presses universitaires de France/ La vie des id茅es.
2013. , Palgrave.
Peer-reviewed听articles and听chapters
2023. . In: Mathieu Segers and Steven Van Hecke, eds, Cambridge History of European Union, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2023 (with Sophia Psarra and Uta Staiger). , in: Sophia Psarra, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg, eds., Parliament Buildings: The Architecture of Politics in Europe, London: UCL Press (open access).
2023. . In: Jan Komarek, ed., European constitutional imaginaries and ideologies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2021. . In: Julie Smith, ed., Palgrave Handbook on European Referendums, 583-600 ().
2021. .听iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 230,听
IMAGINE Working Paper, No. 13.听In: Jan Komarek, ed., (Oxford, OUP).
2016. , in Yoeri Albrecht and Mathieu Segers, eds 'Re:Thinking Europe: Thoughts on Europe-Past, Present and Future, Amsterdam University Press, 155-67.
2016: Politique europ茅enne 54/4: 24-56 ().
2015. , Comparative European Politics 21/2:1-26 (open access).
2015. , European Political Science Review 07/04: 615-38 ().
2015 (with Kalypso Nicola茂dis and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni). , in Eric Monnet and Claudia Sternberg, eds Euro: les ann茅es critique, Presses universitaires de France ().
2004 (as Claudia Schrag, with Frances Rosenbluth and Matthew Light). , Women and Politics 26/2:1-25 ().