Sophie Meunier

Selected Media Contributions

New: Oped "EU Membership Shouldn't Be a la Carte", in The New York Times' Room for Debate, 28 January 2013.

New: Interview: "Chinese companies have fallen back on One-Stop-Shop offers in order to make their crossborder acquisitions successes", LeadersLeague, Intelligence Report and Directory, 2012 (December)

New: Oped "De "made in China" à "owned by China": L'Europe et les Etats-Unis face aux investissements directs chinois", Le Huffington Post, 18 October 2012.

Op-eds and Articles

• Oped "EU Membership Shouldn't Be a la Carte", in The New York Times' Room for Debate, 28 January 2013.
• Oped "De "made in China" à "owned by China": L'Europe et les Etats-Unis face aux investissements directs chinois", Le Huffington Post, 18 October 2012.
• Oped "Il faut guerir les Francais de leur phobie de la mondialisation" (with Xavier Huillard), Les Echos, 21 September 2012.
• Oped "Coming to America: Top Ten Factors Driving Chinese Foreign Direct Investment" (with Justin Knapp), The Huffington Post, 31 July 2012.
• Oped "Tiger Parents: Is There Something 'Different' About Chinese FDI in the U.S. and Europe?", The Huffington Post, 4 June 2012.   
• Oped "Why Foreign Policy Counted for Zero in the French Election", The Huffington Post, 15 May 2012.
• Oped "What Obama can learn from Sarkozy's defeat", The Huffington Post, 7 May 2012.
• Oped "Ce qu'Obama peut apprendre de la defaite de Sarkozy", Le Huffington Post, 6 May 2012.
• Oped "Lessons from the French Presidential Campaign", Al Jazeera English, 2 May 2012.
• Oped "Ce que les Americains peuvent apprendre de l'election francaise", Le HuffPost, 23 April 2012.
• Oped "The French Presidency Is a Bargain", The Huffington Post, 19 April 2012.
• Essay "The French Don't Know Their Place (in the Global Economy)", Foreign Affairs, 30 March 2012 (updated April 23).
• Opinion "Pressure to Stay Together", in The New York Times' Room for Debate "Are Germany and France Drifting Apart?", 27 November 2011.
• Oped "China as Savior or Predator in Europe?" The Huffington Post, 3 November 2011.
• Opinion "Not Necessarily Anti-American" in The New York Times' Room for Debate "Facebook and the French Resistance", 6 June 2011.
• Oped "The DSK Scandal: French Anti-Americanism Ain't What it Used to Be", The Huffington Post, 23 May 2011.
• Oped "French Fried? The G20 Will Soon Find Out How "American" Sarkozy Really Is", The Huffington Post, 10 January 2011.
• Article "La Mondialisation n'aime pas les boycotts", Telos, 14 May 2008.
• Article "Mondialisation: La French Touch" (with Rawi Abdelal), Telos, 12 October 2007.
• Article "The French Mark on Globalization" (with Rawi Abdelal), Telos, 12 October 2007.
• Article "L'Union fait la force: la politique commerciale commune a souvent beneficie a la France" Figaro Magazine, 28 January 2006.
• Article "Weakness as Power: France, Europe, and the WTO Negotiations" EuroFuture, Winter 2005.
• Oped "Paris et l'OMC: l'art de negocier en position de faiblesse" Le Monde, 1 November 2005.
• Letter in The New York Times in response to Paul Krugman's opinion on France, August 1, 2005.
• Oped "Desarmer l'antiamericanisme" Le Figaro, 22 February 2005.
• Oped "La France et ses contradictions" Le Figaro, 31 May 2003.
• Oped "La gauche allegre..." Le Figaro, 28 January 2003.
• Oped "Gare au Double Langage!" Le Figaro, 4-5 May 2002.
• Oped “Mondialisation: le prix du silence”, Sud-Ouest, 27 April 2002.

Interviews

Press

• Interview in LeadersLeague, Intelligence Report and Directory, "Chinese companies have fallen back on One-Stop-Shop offers in order to make their crossborder acquisitions successes", 2012 (December)
• Interview in the Journal du Dimanche, "Non, les Americains ne detestent pas les Francais", 21 May, 2011
• Interview in Forward Magazine (Belgium), June 2009.
• Article "Hating Uncle Sam: A Princeton class dissects the causes of anti-Americanism and what can be done about them" by Mark Bernstein, Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine, March 4, 2009.
• Interview in Princeton Alumni Weekly, 8 October 2003.
• Interview in Journal du Dimanche, "Mondialisation version francaise," with Jean-Michel Salvator, 28 April 2002.
• Interview in Le Monde, "L’Adaptation de l’économie francaise à la mondialisation a été remarquable," with Alain Beuve-Méry and Serge Marti, 16 April 2002.
• Interview in France-Amerique, "La rhetorique anti-mondialisation sera plus forte pendant les presidentielles," with Keren Lentschner, 29 December 2001-4 January 2002.

Web

• Interview "Dans la tête des Français face à la mondialisation : pourquoi le péril jaune a remplacé le bouc émissaire américain", Atlantico.fr, 25 September 2012.

TV

• Interview on the PBS NewsHour with Gwen Ifill "Strauss-Kahn Arrest Drops Bomb on French Politics", May 16, 2011.
• Guest on news show Face a l'Info hosted by Eddy Caekelberghs, RTBF Prem1ere Radio, 5 November 2008.
• Interview on Bloomberg TV US on the Franco-American economic relationship, "On the Economy", 7 June 2007.
• Interview on Bloomberg TV US on the French presidential elections,  Evening Edition with Mike Schneider, 7 May 2007.
• Interview on Bloomberg TV France on the WTO Hong Kong negotiations, 19 December 2005.
• Interview in Arte Reportage on the EU Constitution viewed from the US, broadcast on Arte and TV5 May 25, 2005.
• Debate on ABC, Nightline with Ted Koppel, opposite Tom Friedman, 29 August 2000.

Radio

• Guest of NPR show Patt Morrison on KPCC, "French election results are in", 7 May 2012.
• Guest of NPR show "Worldview with Jerome O'Donnell", "The presidential election in France" on WBEZ Chicago, 3 May 2012.
• Guest of NPR show Patt Morrison on KPCC, "What lessons can President Obama learn from the French election?", hosted by Patt Morrison, 24 April 2012.
• Interview on France Culture Radio for the book-of-the-week, 18 December 2005.
• Guest of NPR show Radio Times on WHYY Philadelphia, hosted by Marty Moss-Koane, 27 February 2003.
• Interview on Pittsburgh radio KQV 1410AM for the weekly radio program "Pittsburgh Global Press Conference" organized by the World Affairs Council, 11 October 2002.
• Interview on France-Inter radio (France), "Rue des Entrepreneurs," 6 July 2002.
• Interview on France Info radio (France) with Philipe Vallet, 2 May 2002.
• Interview on BFM radio (France) with Marie-Laure Zonzcain, 20 April 2002.
• Interview on France 5 TV (France), Ecomatin with Rachid Ahrab, 17 April 2002.

Selected Citations

• Research cited in "China 2013: Soothsaying in the Year of the Snake:, Ogilvy Pubic Relations, January 2013
• Research cited in David A. Bell, "François Hollande’s Apology Tour—and What Americans Should Learn From It", The New Republic, 19 October 2012.
• Research cited in Emilie Leveque, "Les Francais ont-ils raison d'avoir peur de la mondialisation?", L'Expansion, 22 September 2012.
• Cited in Chen Weihua, "More Chinese FDI set to pour into US", China Daily, 13 July 2012.
• Cited in Emily Brennan, "In New York, French politics is local", The New York Times, 8 June 2012.
• Research cited in Jeremy Gaunt,  "Is U.S. economic patriotism hurting?", Reuters, 15 May 2012.
• Cited in Judith Chetrit, "Pourquoi les Francais detestent les Americains", slate.fr, 22 December 2011.
• Cited in "Strauss-Kahn: Farewell, Elysee!", LifeWeek, 5 July 2011.
• Cited in Miguel Angel Garcia Vega "Negocio al hilo de la revolucion", El Pais, 5 June 2011.
• Cited in Corine Lesnes, "Quand l'Amerique salue le George Bush de la France", Le Monde, 9 avril 2011.
• Cited in Tirdad Derakhshani, "WikiLeaks Diplomatic Documents Put Educators in a Quandary", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 February 2011.
• Cited in James Traub, "A Frenchman Without Borders"  The New York Times Magazine, 3 February 2008.
• Cited in Helene Vissiere, "La France a nouveau frequentable," Le Point, 31 May 2007.
• Cited in "France Gradually Opens to Globalization," AP, 17 April 2007.
• Cited in Bernard Cassen, "Ruptures europeennes," Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2006.
• Cited in Jerome Torre, Le Monde, 27 March, 2006.
• Cited in Greg Ip and Neil King Jr., "Ports Deal Shows Roadblocks for Globalization", The Wall Street Journal,  March 11, 2006.
• Cited in Le Figaro, "Humanitaire...," 28 December 2005.
• Cited in Daniele Castellani Perelli, "Europa a colloquio con alcuni esperti di politica dell'unione" in Europa, sabato 17 dicembre 2005.
• Cited in Erdal Safak, "The Ranch is waiting for a guest," Turkishpress.com, 23 February 2005.
• Cited in Dominique Charpentier, "Le Nouveau defi francais," in Alternatives economiques, July-August 2002.
• Cited in Mathieu Adenil, "La France doit jouer franc jeu avec la mondialisation," Le Nouvel Eco, 14 June 2002.
• Cited in Georges Valance, "Une tete d'electeur," La Vie Financiere, 10 May 2002.
• Cited in Laurence Caramel, "Les contraintes d'une economie mondialisee," Le Monde, 4 May 2002.
• Cited in L'Usine Nouvelle, "La France joue un role actif dans la mondialisation" 2 May 2002.
• Cited in Pascal Riche, "Le rejet certain d'une pensee unique," Liberation, 18 April 2002.
• Cited in Jean-Pierre Robin, "La duplicite francaise face a la mondialisation," Le Figaro, 8 April 2002.
• Cited in Les Echos, "Aux Etats-Unis, les cliches sur le dirigisme a la francaise ont la vie dure," 16 March 2002.
• Cited in Pierre Lemieux, "La France en passe de devenir un musee; economie de l'exception francaise," Le Figaro, 15 September 2000.