Prof. Dr. Henk Overbeek
Programme Leader
Contact Information
Full Professor of International Relations
Vrije Universiteit
Department of Political Science
De Boelelaan 1081c
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: + 31 20 598 6894
Fax: + 31 20 598 6820
Email: hw.overbeek@fsw.vu.nl
CV
Henk Overbeek (1949) gained his Master’s degree (with distinction) in international relations at the University of Amsterdam (1976) and his PhD in social sciences at the same institution (1988). He was previously Senior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam before joining the Vrije Universiteit in 1999, where he is currently Professor of International Relations and a member of the Department Management Team. In the latter function he is responsible for curriculum development and the internationalisation of the political science programme. He has also been Adjunct Professor at Webster University in Leiden since 1994.
Overbeek has published widely in the field of International Political Economy, amongst others Global Capitalism and National Decline: The Thatcher Years in Perspective (1990), Restructuring Hegemony in the Global Political Economy (editor, 1993) and The Political Economy of European Employment (editor, 2003). Overbeek’s recent empirical work has dealt with employment and labour market issues and European and global migration. For the coming years, his work will focus on European socio-economic governance in the context of globalisation, and in particular the political economy of international business taxation. Finally, Overbeek is a member of the editorial boards of the Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy (which he co-founded and co-edited until 2003), the Review of International Political Economy, the International Political Economy Yearbook and Globalizations.
Research interests
International political economy
Transnational relations
Global governance & socio-economic regulation
International relations theory
European integration
Publications
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Teaching
Politics and Governance in the European Union
Humanitarian Issues in Global Politics