Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S.
Schmidt is also an accomplished fine art photographer who has exhibited widely.
The book is constructive, enlightening, innovative and reader-friendly.
As such, it calls attention to the significance of approaches that theorize about ideas and discourse in their many different forms, types, and levels as well as in the interactive processes of policy coordination and political communication by which ideas and discourse are generated, articulated, and contested by sentient thinking, speaking, and acting agents.