Hubert Zimmermann is professor for International Relations at Philipps University Marburg, Germany. He has held positions at Düsseldorf University (Germany) and Cornell University (USA), and graduated from the European University Institute in Florence. His current research interests focus on international security, global financial and monetary policy, the European Union (in particular foreign economic and security policy), foreign military intervention, and transatlantic relations. Among his publications are Money and Security (Cambridge UP 2002), a book comparing EU and U.S. policies in the integration of China to the WTO (Drachenzähmung, Nomos editors 2007), and numerous edited volumes and articles.