BIOGRAPHY
C. Randall Henning is Professor of International Economic Relations at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He specializes in international and comparative political economy, global governance and regional integration. He has focused recently on international regime complexity, including through research on the resilience of multilateral cooperation and future of the International Monetary Fund and regional financial institutions. Challenges posed by the covid-19 economic crisis for emerging-market and developing countries, Europe’s monetary union, debt restructuring and the global financial system are topics of special interest. His previous appointments include service as Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Dr. Henning’s most recent book is Tangled Governance: International Regime Complexity, the Troika, and the Euro Crisis (Oxford, 2017) and most recent study is Regional Financial Arrangements and the International Monetary Fund: Sustaining Coherence in Global Financial Governance (CIGI 2020). He is also author, co-author or editor of Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers (with Andrew Walter; CIGI, 2016), Global Economics in Extraordinary Times (Peterson Institute, 2012), Fiscal Federalism: US History for Architects of Europe’s Fiscal Union (Bruegel, 2012), Governing the World’s Money (Cornell, 2002), Transatlantic Perspectives on the Euro (with Pier Carlo Padoan; Brookings 2000), and Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany and Japan (Peterson Institute, 1994), among other books. He has also published peer-reviewed articles in International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Development and Change, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Global Policy, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes. (See Publications for a more complete list.)
Prof. Henning teaches International Financial Relations (SIS 666), International Political Economy (SIS 751 and SISU 280), and Global Economic Governance (SISU 329). He has written several cases for teaching and has edited a series of cases on Transatlantic Economic Relations.
Among other activities, he convened a twelve-author comparative project on international regime complexity (with Tyler Pratt), organized the Global Financial Governance project and the New Thinking and the New G20 project for CIGI (with Andrew Walter), testified to several congressional committees, and served as the European Community Studies Association Distinguished Scholar and Faculty President of the School of International Service. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, European Union Studies Association, Council of European Studies and Bretton Woods Committee.
Dr. Henning holds a B.A. degree from Stanford University (1978) and M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1985).
Last update: November 2020
Dr. Henning’s most recent book is Tangled Governance: International Regime Complexity, the Troika, and the Euro Crisis (Oxford, 2017) and most recent study is Regional Financial Arrangements and the International Monetary Fund: Sustaining Coherence in Global Financial Governance (CIGI 2020). He is also author, co-author or editor of Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers (with Andrew Walter; CIGI, 2016), Global Economics in Extraordinary Times (Peterson Institute, 2012), Fiscal Federalism: US History for Architects of Europe’s Fiscal Union (Bruegel, 2012), Governing the World’s Money (Cornell, 2002), Transatlantic Perspectives on the Euro (with Pier Carlo Padoan; Brookings 2000), and Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany and Japan (Peterson Institute, 1994), among other books. He has also published peer-reviewed articles in International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Development and Change, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Global Policy, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes. (See Publications for a more complete list.)
Prof. Henning teaches International Financial Relations (SIS 666), International Political Economy (SIS 751 and SISU 280), and Global Economic Governance (SISU 329). He has written several cases for teaching and has edited a series of cases on Transatlantic Economic Relations.
Among other activities, he convened a twelve-author comparative project on international regime complexity (with Tyler Pratt), organized the Global Financial Governance project and the New Thinking and the New G20 project for CIGI (with Andrew Walter), testified to several congressional committees, and served as the European Community Studies Association Distinguished Scholar and Faculty President of the School of International Service. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, European Union Studies Association, Council of European Studies and Bretton Woods Committee.
Dr. Henning holds a B.A. degree from Stanford University (1978) and M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1985).
Last update: November 2020