Research

European Parliament, Brussels 2019. Photo: Sara Norrevik.

European Parliament, Brussels 2019. Photo: Sara Norrevik.

 

Peer-reviewed work

Norrevik, Sara. 2021. “Foreign Economic Policy in the European Parliament and Economic Interdependence with Foreign Powers”. European Union Politics. Read online —> Download draft

Norrevik, Sara and Mehwish Sarwari. 2021. “Third-Party Regime Type and Civil War Duration.”Journal of Peace Research. Read online —>

Norrevik, Sara. 2020. “Trust and Support for Comprehensive Trade Agreements in the European Parliament.” International Studies Quarterly. 64 (2): 356–368 Read online —>

Book chapters

Forthcoming 2022. “EU-China Relations. Economic Interdependence and Vulnerabilities”. In The Foreign Policy of the European Union, edited by Federiga Bindi. Brookings Institution Press

Forthcoming 2022. “A Moment of Success for Ashton? The Brussels Agreement between Serbia and Kosovo”. In The Foreign Policy of the European Union, edited by Federiga Bindi. Brookings Institution Press

Norrevik, Sara. 2020. “Kapitel 9: Sveriges internationella försvarssamarbeten” (Sweden’s International Cooperation in Security and Defence). In Sveriges försvarspolitik – an antologi, edited by Oscar Karlflo and Zebulon Carlander, 158-181. Ekerlids förlag.

Lewander, Jakob, Grzegorz Gromadzki and Sara Norrevik. 2015. “Chapter 10: Cases of Cautious Optimism: Sweden, Poland and the EEAS”. In The European External Action Service and national diplomacies, edited by Rosa Balfour, Caterina Carta and Kristi Raik. Routledge

Dissertation

“Foreign Economic Policies in the European Parliament”

In three papers I analyze policy positions of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) towards international trade and foreign aid. In the first paper I argue that the level of public trust in national governments is a predictor for MEPs’ policy positions toward comprehensive trade agreements (CTAs), in addition to an updated framework of economic predictors. I test my expectations empirically using an original dataset of CTA voting in the European Parliament (TTIP, CETA and the EU-South Korea FTA). In the second paper, I analyze lobbying on comprehensive trade agreements in the European Parliament. In contrast to traditional trade theory that predicts a protectionist bias among lobby groups, I argue that CTAs mobilize special interest groups who are supportive of trade. In the third paper, I consider the role of economic interdependence with foreign nations when MEPs vote on trade and foreign aid. Empirically I analyze MEPs’ policy positions on financial aid and trade with Ukraine and FDI inflows from Russia into MEPs’ electoral districts. My dissertation presents original datasets, offers new theory to predict MEPs’ policy positions, and improves the scholarly knowledge of foreign economic policy in the European Parliament.

Awards

  • 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University at Buffalo (stipend of 6,000.00 USD to conduct interviews with Members of the European Parliament in Brussels)

  • 2018 Paul D. Senese Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science, University at Buffalo 

  • 2018 Best Paper Award, Junior Scholar, European Community Studies Association – Canada (ECSA-C) Biennial Conference 

  • 2017 Best Graduate Student Paper, Department of Political Science, University at Buffalo

  • 2017 Professor Franco Mattei Memorial Scholarship, Political Science Department, University at Buffalo

  • 2017 Scholarship by Sweden National Data Service (SND) for ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, 4 weeks in Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2016 Best Graduate Student Paper, Political Science Department, University at Buffalo 

  • 2015 - 2019, Fulbright Foreign Student Grantee, by Fulbright Commission Sweden. 

  • 2015 Fellowship, Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld)

  • 2012 Fellowship, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)